Controversial gp idea

I’m a barely gold gp main who plays league casually. Let’s get that out of the way before ad hominems come at me. Now I love gp. But I hate the fact he is a lane bully, especially with klepto, and on top of that he isn’t as scary late game if you have a strong assasin or a dedicated diver to deal with him. In other words I want gp to be garbage early and scale up from there until late game he is teamfight version of nasus. The things that (to me) prevent this from happening are 3: lethality/ steraks rush being way better than crit and making him a mid game champ, kleptomancy, and his kit itself. You can’t touch lethality for one champ, and nerfing klepto doesn’t really fix anything, just makes him weaker while having the same problem. So, (and here is the controversy) should we revert his barrel changes? Go back to 2/3/4/5 barrel gp so lane champs can handle him better and late game damage is scarier? Cause I think if you did that and maybe made the barrel armor pen scale too he would be way more late game dedicated. Another issue is his ult, which without thunderlords just feels bad and nothing but a glorified slow until you get upgrades. With that in mind another idea is to add in another ult upgrade. Make each of the current ones cost 100ss less and add in one more that reduces its cooldown further or gives gp some other stat. That way gp wants to farm instead of kill you and can’t kill your adc across the map at lvl 6, but can at lvl 10 (which seems a little more reasonable) I’m not suggesting all these changes be implemented or even any of them. Just asking how to make gp worse early game and better late game.