Riot, why are you so afraid to buff Illaoi?
According to op.gg, she is one of the worst champions to have on your team, regardless of whether you're in bronze or diamond, with her highest winrate being 47% winrate in silver, which still puts her as one of the 20 worst champions in the game. In diamond, she is the single worst champion you can have on your team, with lower winrates than every other champion in the game, even Urgot, Vlad, Swain, and Cassiopeia. Her kit is very clearly in need of a lot of help, yet you refuse to give it any.
Anivia is getting four significant buffs this patch despite having a nearly 50% winrate; Cassiopeia, Swain, Vlad, and Velkoz all are receiving or have received multiple buffs within two weeks of the mage reworks hitting live servers.
Illaoi is getting a small and completely inconsequential buff to what is without a doubt the weakest part of her kit, after you completely trashed what used to be the strongest part of her kit, after being on live for half a year.
This is a champion that, since her release, has never even been close to a 50% winrate, and yet you remain hesitant to even give her the smallest buffs. Every iteration that you've gone through has had at least some form of detrimental nerf to go along with a buff, which completely negates any benefit that the change could have had in the first place.
I fail to see how Illaoi being remotely playable will drastically ruin the game, especially while Maokai, once again, is the safest, most popular, and most effective top laner you can pick, and doubly so when Ekko is still gamebreakingly overpowered and yet received no nerfs this patch.