I think I would have rather dealt with the lag and DC's over not being able to play at all, for the amount of maintenance that they have been doing in the last two - three days you would think they would compensate by at least turning on 2X for a whole day or something to let people make up for lost time.
With all the hype they put out for this update they should have known the server would flood and increased the server size during the routine maintenance or that 20+ hour maintenance yesterday. At least when riot disables a champion they don't shut the whole game down...... I'm just saying.