Competitive (e)sports are usually repetitive to a certain degree. I wouldn‘t call League very repetitive anyway. It’s mostly the same map, yes, but football and chess are also always on the same „map“. With 160+ champs and their interactions and the strategizing aspect of it, I never felt like a match was going like another.

The players are mostly insufferable (like in other competitive games) and League‘s too much of a timesink due to average game time.

I don't understand the popularity of it because I don't understand how people even get into today. There's so much going on with dozens of characters it would take months or even years to memorize everything. I played Apex on and off since it released and I feel it is starting to become the same thing. Every time I play now I feel like no one who has ever played before would be interested in the game.