QoL Ryze buff?

So after playing a lot of Ryze, I think he's stronger than people give him credit for, but difficult to pick up. Playing 30+ games with him began with feeding forever and ended with getting fed enough to carry (and then dying because I'm still bad at positioning). I could comment more on Ryze as a whole but I'd really like to focus on his ultimate.

Riot is (understandably) reluctant to add more power to his ultimate. At level 1, people still underestimate its potency. For chasing, it's fairly weak, yes, but it's excellent for escapes (even at level 1 with Zhonya's) and wave manipulation (try teleporting your caster minions to the enemy turret to freeze the lane for you). The ult/Zhonya's interaction allows him to use it as a reliable escape when split pushing or otherwise caught out.

Sort of.

And here's where the QoL buff would be awesome. The problem with its reliability is that it's so hard to quickly ult away at max range (at level 2 specifically). I have died many times where I had to immediately R+Zhonya's but was unable to ult away far enough, quickly enough, so I was still chased down. The other side of that is trying to ult too far away, at which point Ryze will try to run in the direction you want to ult.

So the QoL buff I'm asking is one of the following:

1. Realm Warp, when smartcast, will cast to the closest point in range of the target, rather than his walking towards it (shift+cast would still allow for precision casting) OR
2. Realm Warp, when smartcast ON THE MINIMAP, will cast to the closest point in range of the target, rather than walking towards it.

Basically, I want to be able to press R on the minimap to ult away at max range without having to move my screen away. This buff not only makes the champion more accessible to people at lower skill levels, it does so by making an intended, reliable interaction more reliable without buffing a single stat.