Has Veigar's Laning Phase Improved Since The Rework Or Gotten Worse?

This post is strictly on Veigars laning phase being 1v1 in lane and jg ganks considered, not team fighting.

On old Veigar I always felt I had options on how to play in lane. I could strictly focus on farming, poke down the other laner, or a mix of both. Now however, I feel Veigar has no choice but to sit back and strictly farm. I say this because all of his abilities require the other laner to make a mistakes in order to land, thus giving Veigar very little to no solo kill pressure. That being said his E can still work well (though not as well as it used to) with a gank from your jungler. This is maybe the only situation where trapping the other person can be useful. On the other side though, his E isn't nearly as reliable as it used to be which puts you at a higher risk of falling victim to the opposing jungler yourself or even just to the other laner. On a more positive note, Veigar can farm much more safely then before and doesn't run into to much mana issues so long and he's just farming.

I guess the question really is, is Veigar's increased farming ability on his Q worth more then the solo kill pressure he used to have and does it help him transfer to late game better?