Is zed really op?

So i've seen a good amount of people mentioning how zed is op now due to the nerf in mana regen making mages have a harder time on against him. Ill break down the pros and cons of zed as best as i can. Pros :

1. Best laning phase out of all assassins. Zed arguably has the best laning phase of all assassins with his safe waveclear ability/harass with no mana costs. With enough practice his qwe combo can devastate squishy mages often leading to zed's lane dominance.
2. Strong all in/power spike lvl 6. Personally i think akali has the strongest lvl 6 spike but zeds is probably second best atm. At lvl 6 zed can easily all in some one below 2/3 health usually getting a kill unless its against an ahri or leblanc who knows what they're doing.
3. Strong outplay/duel potential. Now this is a conditional one cause it is a pro as long as the zed knows what hes doing. I honestly find it super satisfying out playing a super fed riven who has like 500 AD as zed dodging her stun and ult with the shadows. Next to zed i say fizz also has super good out play potential due to his e and q. This also leads to his strength in split pushing late game where he actually is hard to use against coordinated teams.

Cons:

1. Main damage early is easily countered by 2 items. Until zed builds an IE and raw AD late game his damage can be countered by zhonyas which MOST mid lane mages rush against a zed. On top of that qss price has been reduced from 1550 to 1250 making it an easier purchase for adcs.
2. Easy to pick up, hard to master. One can simplify zed into as press R and do as much damage during that 3 seconds. However, he has many play potentials and gets gradually harder to play and master as you face better opponents who also understand zed.
3. Can be useless if not fed/snowballing. Due to the fact zed's burst isn't as fast as someone like leblanc or talon a zed whos behind can be quite useless early and even more so late. On the contrary a behind katarina can easily get rolling if her team's team fight is good and gets her resets going.
4. Teamfighting ability not as good. Other assassin such as talon, katarina even fizz/leblanc can offer reliable aoe/ cc to the team.( yasuo too if you count him as a semi assassin) However zed offers a small slow and is usually an all in diver who is exposed to the elements for a long time. Sure he can swap out if the enemy has no cc and be safe but what use is he afterwards. He is forced to stay back and wait for his w to be up again to even do anything unless his flash is up to maybe clean up a kill.

The only aspect of zed i find overwhelming is his farming capability with his qwe wave clear. This too has been nerfed when his q originally did 80 percent to secondary targets and is now 60 percent. SO my thought was mayb make it 100 80 60 and further even down to 40. Then again other assassins have good wave clear except akali I guess. Fizz with his E, talon with his rake, leblanc with her W R.

In the end, zed is an assassin and like all assassins can be shutdown with cc/exhaust. His early farming laning phase might seem oppressive but honestly that is ALL he has. Yeah his 1v1 is strong but so is every other assassins out there. I personally thought talon was the most annoying back then due to his super fast burst and the one second silence was all he needed to nullify any attempts to zhonya or retaliate. Now that silence is gone he is an all in assassin who must see the right opening to go in since there's no going back for him.

My final thoughts, I think he is in a strong spot right now due to the changes that have been occurring around him but I definitely don't think he is over powered. ( I am a zed main 1000+ games on him about 100ish in ranked, maybe slightly biased)