I don't like that you're slowed to almost a screeching halt I prefered when you could run away or engage with a teammate. now his W is even more situational because you're a sitting duck and the main use i see is preventing an ally being ulted or killed in that 1 moment.
Youre already giving a 7000 HP shield to your ally and if they get CCd you can negate the majority of it by putting them in stasis for free.
Good, it deserved to be gutted. It's more cancerous than Windwall.
The idea was to allow him to be competitive in lane, not just a cc champ to assist adcs, but be able to do something else...
outside of that, he was useless prior to his buff.
