What happened to the Gangplank buffs?

So Riot's reasoning is that his winrate stabilized. You can check many winrate statistics programs and his winrate ranges anywhere from 46-48% with a very low playrate. All of his counters now has access to early health and armor, so the poke strategy doesn't work and you'll run out of mana way before that anyway. I know most of you here have a hate boner for GP and Riot doesn't have the brain cells needed to balance this champion or most of their game but at least be consistent. GP barely has an identity now with crit itemization being garbage and his early game being almost nonexistent due to his mana issues.