What was so wrong with irelia's previous kit

Where she had to be replaced with this monstrosity? Seriously. Nobody was complaining about her before her rework. Her stun may have been a little annoying, but it was NOTHING compared to this kit. Mains like IreliaCarriesU and wickd were doing fine with her. Even after her nerfs, she is sitting at a 53% banrate according to op.gg.

She's not healthy mid- She is only picked here because once she gets ult she can just kill most mages and there's nothing they can do about it. Sure, looking at winrates it may seem like she loses these matchups. She doesn't. She hard stomps them, but eventually loses the game because she gets outscaled in teamfights. HOW IS THIS HEALTHY? I could understand it if she was an older champion, but a reworked champion turning out to be less healthy than the original one? Give me a break.

Even in matchups like malzahar, matchups where she should have no kill pressure due to his passive and ult, she can slaughter him. Why? Because irelia is just that powerful against squishy champions.

Sure, I will admit, she is fun to play. It is fun to get resets and just 100-0 someone. But that isn't justification to keep her in this state. Please, change her so she can play top lane better and not mid lane. I had fun playing against reworked irelia in matchups like riven v irelia when she was strong enough top that it was a skill matchup for her.