I very much agree that wards would help to balance things more. Right now those that can facecheck a bush and get away with it (I'm looking at you Jayce, Olaf, Singed, Rengar etc.) are at an incredible advantage in the "jungle," or as I like to call it "mid lane of pain," which because of alters and the creepily overpowered ganking is by far the most important area of the map. I thought the whole point of the new map was to steer people away from a dominion style bruiser fest, after all isn't that why we have Dominion? For casters, a 10% MS buff on the new Deathcap doesn't really save you from being crushed in a perpetual fog of war as you're forced to fight over alters or lose a farming power up in the early to mid game. This is compounded by the fact that the vision items are rather mediocre! Their cast range and stats MUST be boosted, but even then they are a poor replacement for wards because they are A) so limited (1 close range cast per minute) B) you have to commit an item slot and C) ANOTHER active item (my fingers burn!)
This "mid-lane" also leads to some incredibly fast snowballing. I've played quite a few games already (sleep? what?) and in almost every singe one there was some epic snowballing. Im talking about 10-0 unkillable Singed in 15 minutes, a Teemo on my team with a 4 minute Nashor's Tooth, and teams being bullied unlike anything you see even on Dominion. And no chance for the losing team to turn things around once the ball starts rolling.
In conclusion, I agree that in theory removing wards is a cool IDEA. In practice, the ramifications of doing so lead down the road to Dominion, which I don't think many people want. Thanks for reading and please chime in!

no. they will simply be abused by kat/jax/lee etc. want wards? play heimer.

Personally, with the size of the map I can see why wards aren't available, because if they were you would constantly have vision and ganking would be near impossible.

On the other hand, I can also see how there is a problem. You can't lane without ward unless you freeze the lane close to a tower and have an escape, and you can't exactly travel all game as a 3 man group. Teemo is borderline OP with his vision on this map in my opinion, and people are going to start playing him for that reason. People shouldn't "have" to pick a certain champion or risk not having that vital map coverage which could put them at a serious advantage.

Should they put wards back in? No. Should they do something about the lack of vision? Yes. All in all I think it's a complicated problem. Sure CV and the reveal items are useful, but they are situational and do not solve the problem. Right now there are just too many champions that are almost useless because of how the new TT works and others that are straight up OP, imho (Teemo, Rengar, Khazix, any champion with a strong early game that lets them snowball from early team fights which are forced due to the altars.)

just change the 250g elixir into a pink ward! The problem isn't getting ganked.. with good communication and experience you should be able to know when u are going to get ganked (Riot want it to be a fast paced game after all) + you have your own jungler who were suppose to keep watch and help you.. The problem is teemo mushroom is broken!