I read Taric's rework and I am truly, truly disappointed

Taric is my 3rd most played champion and I usually pick him as a toplaner or ocassionaly jungler. Reading through is rework there are a couple of things that bother me. First, he only has two abilities with damage output. His passive relying on autoattacks and his E 'Dazzle". So basically he is now 100% cemented as a support. I recall RiotRepertoire saying that Taric would remain viable as a sololaner and is some extend jungler. But this is clearly not the case. Secondly they removed the passive that gave armor to all his allies. This was the best thing on Taric and it has been replaced by a W that now only targets 1 ally. He no longer gives armor to his teammates. Third, his ultimate seems quit OP. Invulnerabilities are problematic from a balance perspective. We have already witnessed how Kalista's and Kindreds ult pay off and they are new champions. Yet we get another invulnerability ultimate that really lacks originality. Taric is going to be a healer in lane and a walking ultimate later in the game saving every teammate from burst or whatever. He is going to be superannoying.

So basically I just lost a champion I could play in toplane and jungle to receive a champ who is only a protector and feels like the next Soraka and is ultimate is all he really got about him. I haven't played with him yet but from what I have read this is what comes to my mind.