Here's a summary of my perspective.
- Damage in modern League is currently higher than it's been in the past. This is just true.
- I personally believe that League could be better if damage was a bit lower. Makes for more dynamic fights.
- We started hearing a lot of "damage is out of control, the game is ruined" comments a few years back, so we surveyed players to better understand the sentiment and found that on average players felt fine with the amount of damage in the game. IMO, things could be improved, but the situation doesn't seem to be as dire as those comments make it out to be.