Lore-Compliant Sylas Ult Nerf/Adjustment

It seems to me that everyone is just glossing over the huge discrepancy between how Sylas copies magic in his lore and how he copies ultimates in-game. In the lore, he has to be touching someone with his chains to take their magic. Shouldn’t his ultimate work the same way, not this long-range no-contact selection ability?

Either his ultimate is just a single-press “copies the ultimate of the last champion Sylas damaged within two seconds” or applies a mark to the targeted enemy, and Sylas gets their ult upon damaging them. The ability would only go on full cooldown if he successfully copies the ult.

Honestly, I see no reason for the developers to not have at least considered this. It’s even possible the ability started out as something I suggested here, only changing because the devs felt Sylas needed to have just as much freedom to copy a carry’s ult as a frontliner’s. However, Sylas is by no means lacking in ways to reach and damage an opponent while somewhat mitigating incoming damage. Plus, he more often WANTS the frontliner’s ult anyway.