What I would have prefered from the Maokai rework

I honestly think that instead of the new generic tank aoe cc ult that Riot would have done better to revert Maokai's ult back to what it was before his first rework.

To those not in the know, Maokai's ult used to be something you placed on the field like Anivia's ult and that stayed there until you got out of a certain range, it unfortunately made it so roaming teamfights would cause you to get no benefit from it and either you used it on the enemy team to give yourself tank stats or put it on your backline to make them harder to kill while you died faster.

However, I think that what would have been better for Riot to do would have been to turn Mao's ultimate back to the placable kind he used to have but make it global or semi-global. Make it the anti-Gangplank ult that Maokai could use on a lane where one of his allies is fighting to help push the fight in their favor. Increase the radius, make it give them damage reduction and increase healing effects on those inside it and give it a duration and cd akin to GP's ult. That would be a lot more interesting and make him more unique than another aoe CC ult.