Why is it everyone hates Lee?

I mean he has an average of a 46% WR, he has a 2% ban rate.

In Master and higher his win rate, even with a 30% pick rate, hits as low as 30% several times in a week.

I mean how strong is he really. The only thing he has is his early game damage and mobility. He only gets beefy if he builds bruiser like every other tank jungler. To me he honestly feels extremely average in all regard late game. He has no strengths but he does have a weak team fight. But his early game is snowball or snowball others or go home.

He has had his sustained nerfed over several patches (S3 and S4) and even his utility. He is only in the jungle right now to get fed off the overextended enemy lanes and to counter jungle weaker jungles which can be stopped with good team coordination. His ability to clear the jungle before hydra is poor (but then again anyone who builds a hydra can clear the jungle fast if they scale off it). And if he is power farming after getting hydra he is wasting his window to get ahead. If he decides to go sustain he loses his early game damage, but hey the person struggling to farm the jungle should sit in there all game right?

The only thing I have questioned while playing as him and against him is why his E does magic damage and not physical. It hurts counter building to him and very few Lee's even build large amounts of armor pen to deal with tanks or squishies meaning it wouldn't touch his damage. If anything it would give people a little bit of a chance against him because they don't need 2 resistance items to reduce his damage.

I understand its hard to kill Lee, but the thing is if he is running you shouldn't be chasing him. If you run after him through the vision he just put down to escape then get gang banged by his team, you deserved to die. And if you take away ward hopping or damage he will get other utilities or even more damage. I don't think you want Lee to have a better early game or have a late game. That would make him a monster.

Tell me what would he do without ward hoping. What would he do if he did no damage? What is his role then? Just run around and try to act like Mundo the whole game? Build full tank and just run around like an actual blind person in a team fight because he has no damage or utility to back him up and hope that people focus him? The latter is in all honesty what it sounds like the player base wants.