Malzahar is still in a bad state

I'm going to be honest, Malz has not left the shitter with this update. Too much of his farm and damage is still in the minions, and the minions are way too easy to kill. Not just with autos either; random aoe just insta kills them. Not only that, these things are too slow to catch up to anyone, **without **boots. The only time you can hope to get them to land hits is when you ult, which is pretty unsatisfying gameplay to deal with. I feel like one of my abilities is completely useless unless my lane opponent is not there or is perma locked down. Also the minions spawn ONE by frickin ONE in the slowest way possible. They are horrible and I hate that they are still a main part of this kit.

Honestly Riot, stop trying to fix him. This rework has failed to do anything in the way of making a healthy gameplay for Malzahar. All his issues from before pale in comparison to this clunky, abominable mess, and are echoed in other midlaners. Can Passively clear waves without going oom? Ekko, Viktor, pretty much any mage midlane.

At the very least, get rid of this passive and put his minions back there. Maybe have w spawn one and make them all the same as old malz's. Seriously this iteration of malz is way too weak to farm or interact with his lane opponent