Can a Rioter explain their thought process behind Shaco nerfs?

Critical strike damage changed from [120% - 145%] to [130% (+40% AP) Decieve Q: Cooldown changed from 14 at all ranks to 16/15/14/13/12 // [removed] No longer does 20-80 (+40% AP) bonus physical damage on next attack.

I played nearly nothing but Shaco for 2 seasons. Had my own playstyle build and knew how to make it work in and out. I was finally able to leave bronze and carry myself to gold because of him. Then the rework came and just flat out ruined him (AD Wise) then more nerfs came and they made AP shaco nothing but a gimmick now they're nerfing him AGAIN because of a bunch of low elo players not knowing how to ward or build against him?

Riot you stated his early game was too strong. You said he had far too much ganking pressure and counter jungling was too strong.

First off his early game was abysmal, his first clear was the only one that let him survive and do what he needed early on. When that got messed up by an invade it was really hard to apply any pressure.

Second that level 2 cheese at the enemy buff got completely shutdown with the buffs spawning first. His early game cheese that experience shaco players used got shut down hard. It was already easily avoidable by a simple ward. I can't count the number of times I ran past a ward and the enemy knew I was there yet would still try to take their buff knowing I would smite it. Their allied laners wouldn't care to stop me and would tunnel vision their own lane despite pings.

Why is Shaco being punished for other people making mistakes and/or playing poorly? How is he "too strong" because people literally LET you do what you want?

His mid-late game fell off extremely hard due to lifesteal being ridiculous and he was one of the only assassins that required actual brains to play. He doesn't have resets, extremely low cd, multiple dashes/blinks, he can't shunpo away 5000 times like kat. He can't port from shadow to shadow. He can't be like rengar come from stealth and murder an entire team before they can blink. He went in and got the squishy (if they were dumb) then had to figure out a way out. Which usually required prep time through boxes/clone baits. He was the ideal stealth assassin that should've been the mark for how to balance them.

I've tried and tried once the rework came to make him work. I really did I tried multiple builds going from full ad, bruiser, hybrid, tank and ap. AP Shaco ofc worked/works but unless you somehow go against the worst players in the world you will not do well with AD Shaco at all and now you're nerfing him even more? Why? He was the first main I found and now he's being gutted because of a bunch of gold and lower players not being smart enough to realize 99% of his damage is magic and build MR or that they are too braindead to by a ward? You might as well just admit you don't want people playing him just like evelynn