But the fact of the matter being unique for the sake of being unique is coming at the cost of balance and this isn't a good thing.
My brother (level 8) is duo queuing with his friend (level 23) and at the moment he is VSing people anywhere from Level 15 to 25. These people have flash (a level 12 spell), they have Tier 3 runes (he has none) and they have more mastery points. The game is unbalanced because it's trying to 'add some flavour'. This shouldn't be some COD crap where people have to earn shit, everyone should be on a level playing field.
Fine you like your summoner spells, but why shouldn't they be make into items? They would still exist in some form.
Riot should give everybody all Tier 1 runes, unlock the Rune pages so you can use said Tier 1 runes (not to be confused with giving out free pages) and give everybody 30 mastery points so the balance gap is closed. The only reason Im not suggesting their removal is because people have paid real money for the rune pages, and it would be unfair to them.