Nothing you just mentioned has anything to do with Soraka and Janna specifically. None of their abilities are 'watch the lane', 'ward bushes' etc.

Nor are those non-champion based responsibilities unique to Soraka or Janna. Other supports do those exact things as well, to the exact same degree and exact same responsibility.

So.... less nonsense please.

Oh you're funny!

mid/late game u have 3 options:
-go ap and try to make a lil difference
-go normal support with mreg and base ur game in a good ult, "healing" and bosting speed.
-a lil or both and meh on everything, but more balance.

Or go AD/support and rape face.

(Innate) Taric's autoattacks replenish his mana for 7.5% of the damage dealt.

This is roughly 5 mana per auto attack at level 2. Combine this with his base mana regen and the mana regen mastery, he has about 20+ mana regen per 5, by attacking once. If you match your auto attacks with the enemy AD carry missing a last hit, you regen even more.

Her auras provide a lot of bonuses in late game where she has decent CDR.

Q gives a net gain of 20 AP and AD. To your AP, that is 28 additional AP thanks to death cap.

W is effectively Aegis' defense buff, but slightly weaker when maxed.

E is better than Janna's passive and active equates to almost a reverie active.

sona is just free kills, and an ad carry lane gimp. poke carry once, sona oom and useless the rest of the laning phase.

i love when people pick her, especially in solo queue where theres not enough coordination to utilize her ult, you can pretty much ignore her 100%, get stunned for a sec, then continue to 5v4 them.

sona is trash, worse than eve, worse than xin zhao.

you could pick almost anyone, build aegis/reverie, buy wards AND be waay more useful than a good sona.

Wow, youre an idiot. If you can't do all that by simply looking at a square on the screen you must have ADD. Also, like typical internet *** fashion, you misuse and fail to understand a community creation. "Nerf master suck town" was originally from a comic poking fun at Morello because he's lead champion designer, not because hes "OMG INFAMOUS FOR NARFINGZ". How about you learn some common sense before opening that mouth to throw pointless insults around?

they can simply up the ban numbers

in my 18 months here morello is sort of known for the mass nerfing of things to the comunity i learned that my first 2 months here lol

also phreak is known as the guy who screams "tons of damage" and loves trinity force on everything, plays alot of champs as junglers, oh and makes really really sucks for how to play champion ( mostly based on his gp spotlight )

This is a good question, and one we struggle with a lot. Several characters (especially older ones) have design patterns like this that could be solved by fundamentally reworking the character. The cost of this is how much a lot of people don't like change and have gotten used to certain things (jungle, Ryze rework, Fiddle changes, and many more are good examples).

In support's case specifically, this is a bigger issue because Soraka and Sona are built on shaky design foundations to begin with. On the flip side, both have a pretty loyal fanbase who enjoy those playstyles and get really angry about changes to them - even if the game or character would get better as a result. Top this off with the sensitivity that we hate support (which if we did, I think you wouldn't see them in the meta, and the two being as popular as they are..), and you see the contentiousness of this issue.

I don't have a clear answer because I'd do this 100% if we were releasing the game tomorrow. Since this is a live game though, there's a lot of things to factor in - especially when it comes to player expectations. I agree with your analysis that Soraka (and likely Sona) will always be either flattened out, lackluster or must-picks with their current core designs - do we change those and let their power shine more? Do we nerf core mechanics to be balanced and remove fun from the players who do like them? We have done this before, and I think our ability to do so today is much better, but it's always risky and a tough decision. Personally, I'd rather just make Q something like 60 second CD and a massive heal so it was a heroic save and not a HoT equivalent, but that's me :P

These kinds of things obviously take time, and Stealth, Karma and Katarina are on deck right now. I'm not opposed to this, but as you can see from the second post with downvotes, support players have a real attachment to these characters' design, even if that design is unhealthy.