Well, in all honesty they did say they didn't want the jungler to control the "lane" and making an incredible impact on how the game flows.

Having the Jungler with less gold by the end of the game shows that.
If the Jungler had more gold than anyone else then clearly he is part of controlling the flow of the game.
I personally hated having a Jungler take the control of a game and anything I do in the 20 minutes of my laning phase (which is still too long) is wasted. I may as well play ARAM... oh wait I do.