It's not classic.
It was implemented when things were at their peak. The only option for using your gear was being a pull team member, Two-Chain is one and I like to rib him.
Proud people so show some respect.
Anyway, I support unrooting them.
The true beef behind all this was the zerg guild, which riot became and for a time swallowed them all. The only people who can really compete with these folks are other people like these folks. When they poach all those people from the smaller guilds there is nothing left to do but join them.
They had to die.