What were the actual intentions when making...
reworked

I'm asking this question sincerely, I really don't understand. It really doesn't make sense to implement champs with their playstyle in a game like this. They're completely uniteractive with instant waveclear and don't even have roaming potential.
Were they designed strictly to be lane freezers and split pushers or what?
shield is to use his E (flip)? Buy that one item and he becomes completely unable to do anything to you without help from his teammates.