About the incoming nerfs to W max Zoe...

I think that this is exactly the playstyle you should be encouraging for Zoe.

When she maxes Q>E>W, she's kinda boring to play and extremely obnoxious to play against. It's entertaining for sure, but the combo gets old. You just keep spamming E until you get one, and then you do a max range Q on the poor schmuck. She's basically a pure frag machine.

When she maxes Q>W>E, she's still an annoyance, but she's more fun to play as and has more risks than an artillery Zoe. She zooms around teamfights with constant speedboosts, doing a decent amount of persistent damage with W bolts and Paddle Star spam. She can no longer 100-0 somebody with an E-Q-Auto, but she can now kite people and run them down.

Zoe is a trickster. With artillery builds, she doesn't feel that way.

With builds centered around Spell Thief, you really FEEL like a trickster.

If you nerf her W, though, Zoe players are gonna have to go back to the E build, which isn't really an improvement.