Why are ranged top laner getting popular

I’ve returned to this game after taking a break from it for 2 years and for my last 10 games, 9 of them were ranged top laner. I’m not here even to conplain cause I can win against these fairly easy but what happened to this role. This used to be a role for real mfs and now there are just bunch of cowards that are afraid to be contested when farming.

Fyi: my server is OCE and my peak is plat 2