Nice post.
I played TT for over a year when I first started LOL and since then and in the year plus since I last played it has received zero attention. Zero positive attention that is.
It is it's own animal but the lack of a solo queue ranked or a normal draft is two more reasons I don't play it. Variety is bad on SR but it has nothing on TT unless you have your dedicated ranked team. Which is great if you do but its just another obstacle to casual drop in play.
Don't get me wrong, I love the pace and the quicker more constant action and the fact that you don't sit passively and farm forever before team fights but when you can't play a map intuitively and win... it's a bad map.
I understand you can make the game enjoyable if you have your ranked team to ban the FOTM to allow some variety and when you understand the dynamics of the inhib and the fountain turret you can go for the kill instead of starting a 1 hour plus turtle game. I also understand that it just makes TT that much more of a niche map.
Unfortunately.