You hate that I express my opinion because it isn't in alignment with yours lol?
I don't hate you expressing your opinion, I hate the argument. They're two very different things. I wouldn't make an argument that you can't express your opinion because it differs from mine because that's literally the same argument I just said I hate.
The argument being invalid does not make your opinion invalid. I could make the argument that the TPP shouldn't go ahead because it's created by the USA and everything the USA has done historically has ended pretty badly, (discalmer I do not actually believe this) my opinion here is completely valid, giving corporations the ability to sue governments in a court conducted by corporations is a horrible idea on many levels. My original argument however is not at all valid.
Your argument is also the argument that's typically used by religious fundamentalists to justify the removal of liberties, that alone should maybe make you think about the validity of the argument.
Nothing about irelia is interesting.
I'd say that's completely subjective. I as well as many Irelia players would disagree with this at a fundamental level. I find Irelia to be a very fun and interesting champion. There's a lot of mechanical depth you can find in playing and mastering her which people who don't play her never explore. Of course this makes her less interesting, if I have a copy of Macbeth and all I ever do with it is use it as a door stop of course I'm not going to find it interesting. If I sat down and read it maybe I would.
Besides I don't see how this point holds any water at all. You don't find Irelia interesting, that's absolutely fine. I ignore 90% of League's champions, including pretty much every champ you play because I don't find them interesting. I'm not going to argue that they need changes because of only that because quite frankly I'm not that egotistical. I understand that different people have differing opinions.
And riot has been on record in the past that they've been afraid to give bruisers good items because of how abusive they'd be on irelia and to a less extent
What world are you living in exactly? Over the last 3 years Riot has introduced and buffed tons of bruiser items, very few of which Irelia has ever even looked at. Just listing them off, 
(then nerfed because of Gnar) 
and last but not least, 
. Clearly Irelia abuses bruiser items, even the ones she never builds so hard that Riot can never buff them like they did for Trinity Force, an item that Riot can never buff because of Irelia. Your point is utter nonsense, even if Riot has said that they have acted at odds with the statement.
Nasus has less counterplay in duel situations but that's his niche and unlike irelia, he's not even a champion early game (because irelia players try to make up this bullshit statement that she's "weak" early). And Nasus is garbage in teamfights whereas irelia, even late game where she falls off, can still gib carries by jumping on them. Nasus doesn't have this potential and any potential he ever had of doing this has been completely removed.
Of course course you're going to feel like Irelia isn't weak early, your champion pool is terrible at dealing with her. Out of your top 5 champs you play 4 champs who lose to Irelia and a skill matchup.
Irelia beats GP and Vlad because her kit is just great for dealing with ranged harass. She beats every ranged champ, that's her design and it's something that's needed in League. Ranged toplaners are often far too dominent and Irelia often shows in soloqueue as a counter to them.
Maokai (who you haven't played that much of) and Nasus are abysmal early game. They need to be, Nasus because he's a midgame god and Maokai because he's a teamfight god. Nasus spikes far harder midgame than Irelia, she has actually has no way to deal with him in the mid game if she can't shut him down. This is why Irelias tend to play aggressive into Nasus, she has to be the aggressor in this matchup because she can't allow Nasus to free scale, this is one of the few matchups that plays this way for Irelia however, she rarely plays the early aggressor and if this is the main matchup you view Irelia through you're going to view her as far stronger and more aggressive early because of the context, same goes for the Tree, just replace midgame with teamfights.
Jax is the famed skill matchup VS Irelia, I've played this matchup from both sides (although mostly Irelia into Jax) and I really don't think there's that much in it. Both champs can be aggressive, either can farm, if you're the better player you generally have a huge advantage on either.
Against most melee champs Irelia does lose lane hard however. Her ability to deal with champs like Riven, Fiora, Rumble and Garen isn't good at all. She also loses early to Darius, but I think people overrate him as a counter, as an Irelia player I'm more scared of a decent Jax than a good Darius.
Nasus and Jax have significantly more counterplay and meaningful decisions than irelia does. Jaxs E has so many decision points that quite frankly, this alone has more decision points than irelias entire kit. If you don't pop it right away for the stun, your upside is continued damage reduction from aoe spells and dodge from AAs but you likely get kites out and disengaged from so you have to pop right away usually to get the stun and lose out on the benefit of its potential power. And you had to use your Q to get in range of the enemy so you have no way to follow up past this.
Just to start off with, where's the counterplay? Based on what you wrote I only see ways for Jax to fuck up, I didn't see you mention any actual ways to play against him.
From a purely mechanical standpoint you're not wrong, Irelia doesn't have huge amounts of mechanical complexity. What you'd learn if you played her is that as Irelia you micro manage and pay attention to everything. Where the wave is as Irelia is super important, you need to be capable of manipulating and understanding wave mechanics to a far greater level on Irelia than other champs. You also need to be able to quickly analyse HP percentages, using your E as a slow is only really a good idea when there isn't a chance to stun, often new Irelia players struggle to understand when their E is a stun and use it slightly too early.
And yes, most of Irelia's counters come from counterpicking or prioritising her as a target to take out of the game. This is true of the bruiser class in general, they are champions who you rarely can outplay, if you fuck up and let the have a situation where they have an upper hand they win. That does not mean they lack counterplay however. You counter Irelia in basically the same way you counter Jax, even with her passive she can be CCed off of a carry and focused down, it's not even like tenacity is really that strong in the current state of the game where everyone runs knockups and displacements, Jax's R probably makes him marginally harder to deal with than Irelia's passive.
But ultimately you're not wrong, Irelia is a champion who when ahead will win virtually any 1v1, so is Jax, so is Nasus, so is Fiora or really any fighter in the game. What this ultimately comes down to is counterplay vs ability to outplay. Fighters get the final say on outplaying because of the nature of their class. The counterplay is not to give them a 1v1, you have to find other ways to play against them and what you will generally find is that what works against one is pretty good against the class.
Meanwhile, irelias E is good no matter what and it doesn't matter if you don't use it properly because you get a retardedly strong slow, and even if you out trade her you now get punished for it and eat a stupid 2 second stun.
Nasus player says fucking what?
If you really think a 60% slow is "retardedly strong" then I'd advise you to look at the power of most other champs slows, around 50-60% is utterly average. Irelia's E also isn't a 2 second duration in most cases. The majority of Irelia players max W first and E second, what this means is that from lvs 1-7 it's a 1 second duration and 8 and 9 it's a 1.25 second duration. If it doesn't matter whether Irelia uses her E as a slow I'd also say you've fucked something royally, because she's clearly so absurdly far ahead of you that you may as well just get up an leave.
