Malzahar doesn't feel like a DoT mage anymore. what is he?

I haven't played malzahar. since about a year. way before the reowork. then. he had good damage on his E. his W was great DoT as well. and his Q was chunking enemies for massive damage ((yeah giant enemy crab). today i played him for the first time since his rework. he didn't feel like a DoT mage anymore. brand is a good example for a dot mage. he lands a spell. chunks you. combos them. the dot stacks or adds up. malzahar now how two dots. his E and ult. personally i don't consider his ult much of a DoT. just like his old ult. it technically is. but its a single target point and click that does a specific amount of damage of targets hp.

now the biggest problem i have with him. is his E.

his E does no damage. compared to his old E. the damage on the E is utter garbage. his Q does no damage compared to his old Q. i believe the scaling was 90% on the old one.

anyway. all his damage is in his pets. W. the clunkiest. ability of the mage rework. blown up by AOE attacks. his whole kit is based around his basic abilities. not his passive. not his ult. but a basic ability. makes no sense right? why isn't the voildling thing his passive?. that makes sense to me.

now his passive. well. at the beginning. it was the most broken thing ever introduced in a rework. it was too strong. but now its been nerfed about 3-4 times already. and its pretty much. a meh ability. that you have 0.25 second window of time to make use of and basically counters things like a blitz hook or a thresh hook. displacements.

tldr: malzahar doesn't play like a dot mage. he doesn't play like a battle mage. not much of a burst mage. hes too niche. weird champion atm that feels awful to play and doesn't resemble old malz nearly as much. old malz was much more fun