It annoys me that you get 0 respect as Darius playing a genuinely difficult champion.
The LoL community's perception of Darius is so hilariously wrong. He's seen as a low elo easy lane stomper. This is literally the opposite of true.
Most of his matchups are skill matchups where you make one mistake and the enemy laner will be feeding you your teeth.
He wins more the higher in elo you go.
He's hard to pilot. I don't know why people act like not having Riven combos means a champion is mechanically easy. Most of the champions people agree are difficult do not have Riven combos. Darius has very specific skill ordering that makes or breaks fights that constantly changes depending on the situation and positioning is highly important. In teamfights he has a lot of split second decisions that are the difference between exploding instantly and getting a quadra.
I'm not a Darius one-trick. I play Gwen, Olaf, and Vayne. I always feel like Darius is by far the one I have to lock in on the most. Anecdotally he's also usually the lowest winrate of "part-timers" I see.