Eventual fate of Elise? @whoever at Riot who is responsible for spiders

A bit of history to start this off.

It seems that Elise, as a champion, has a peculiar life cycle. After initial release, she was considered really weak, as it is often with difficult to play champions, then given a few buffs that made her a complete monster, then rightly nerfed, then nerfed some more. And then nerfed for straight four or five patches until she finally hit her rock bottom of 42 or 43 percent win rate in soloq. Forgotten, unloved, unplayed. Few, if anyone, mourned.

The tragedy of Elise is that she is in many ways Lee Sin's ugly sister. They both share a lot of traits: junglers with great early damage, famed for being dominant in competetive, with high skill cap, bad lategame, and sometimes taken into lane by hipsters. Both hated by people who do not play her. But while he had all the cool plays, all the damage and all the fan love, the Spider Lady never got any of that. I mean, when was the last time anyone here seen a YT video of amazing Elise play?

She was never as flashy, though probably often just as obnoxious. As a result, she ended up, for around a year, being a champion pretty much without dedicated players, with a very difficult kit that even when played correctly was still ham-strung by the old nerfs. In very short, in a bad spot.

Riot recognized that. Elise was so weak that she needed a buff. Or two. Or three. If my memory serves me right, it was four or five buffs to her, patch after patch. And then suddenly history repeated itself and Elise became a monster once again. And then history repeated itself again, and she got nerfed. And then nerfed again. And now we are about to see yet another nerf, this time to her spiderling base damage. It is likely that the nerfs will continue until Elise sinks one more time, this time her kit with even more holes drilled through it, so that it does not sail again.

So, to get to the point.

What happens to Elise next? Because at this rate, her kit is going to (eventually) get gutted. It is perhaps a bad kit, and it is certainly a problematic one. But is this spider lifecycle a solution? Can, should Elise actually be good? What would make her good? And finally, appealing to players? Because I feel like it is one of the biggest problems she has right now - she is not appealing to play. Her relegation to the role of E bot in late game (further reinforced by the oncoming nerfs to her late-game damage), the fact that her squishy jungle builds are just not optimal, and she is often forced to go full tank, which both does not fit her "fantasy", nor actually feels any good, the artificial issues introduced by the various - again, warranted - nerfs, like the clunkiness of her spider-form E... When weak, she was not in good spot, and when made strong again, she actually found herself in even a worse one.

The tragedy of Elise is that nerfs that she had to recieve for the sake of the game made her a very annoying champion to actually play, and I say it as a hardcore Elise toplane main.

What is Riot's opinion on Elise's eventual fate? Does she have a place in this game, in roughly her current state? Should she get reworked? Or consigned to the pit of unloved champions? Is there actually any plan on how to deal with her? Or will the cycle of Elise continue?