Riot- can we talk about Cho Gath?

Cho Gath is in a really awkward state right now since the nerf to his w. The most successful builds recently have been full magic penetration builds but to me that's not what cho gath is about.

The problem is, now thanks in part to his w nerf, along with his clunky moveset, Tank cho basically has no reliable damage. Besides his spikes, he is just far less superior to pretty much any other ap tank in the game now. (Maokai tanks way better thanks to his ult and passive, singed has the movement speed built into his kit to disrupt fights better, galio can absorb a ton of damage and has a great team fight oriented ult, and Naut has a ton of cc built into his kit, swain is the king of drain tanks, and vlad is great at sustained damage)

To me, cho is a sentient void creature that feasts on his enemies to grow stronger. He starts off small and puny, not even a threat to anyone, but then he grows to colossal proportions and is a massive wall of a tank that has the tools to disrupt and peel for your carries. He shouldn't be about 1 shot comboing your opponent with his great ap ratios. That's the only viable way to build him now because he has no reliable damage otherwise! AP Tank cho or just pure tank cho should be his best build path based on his fantasy.

So that's where I want to talk to riot about this. What is cho's fantasy? What is he supposed to be? A tank? A bruiser? A mage? Because he has all these aspects to his kit which can make a lot of builds work well on him, but he doesn't have any cohesiveness in his kit to make everything work. So he is just stuck being either a mediocre tank, a mediocre unreliable burst mage, or a more reliable bruiser (but doesn't have the raw damage in his kit to make it work).

All im saying is that he shouldn't be forgotten. I know he is due for a vgu but it's not likely going to come this year. I would at least like him playable as a tank so I'm not forced to build all these ap items if I want to play him at all in this meta.

There isn't a lot you can change number wise to his kit. It's been fine for a while and if his ap ratios get nerfed harder than there just won't be any point to play him at all. So he needs some other utility in his kit that makes him unique and different from the other ap tanks. His e could be a good place to start since its pretty boring gameplay wise.

TL;DR Cho is in a bad state since his w nerf. The only viable way to build him is as a pure ap penetration mage and that doesn't mesh with his supposed fantasy. Riot needs to look at him again and justify giving him something cool and new and different than the other ap tanks to make him worth playing again.