Does enyone else feel like playing neeko now is kinda underwhelming and unrewarding

When rito released neeko, i was sceptical, "whats so good about this champ", "low range", "low damage", "half useless passive", but jesus christ was it fun to actually play, enything you go for works, somewhat, you can always put in some mechanics into it, and the ult was really hard to land, BUT it was still enjoyable and working. Now, lets go to the current moment, you rito took the ult slow away on neeko's R, in short, not only do you slow yourself, stun yourself, and leave yourself open, but, you also do minimal damage and CC, WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL were these guys thinking, the ult is half god damn impossible/worth to land now, 2.5sec's of self mitigated cc, like, cmon, can you do something to this ult, maybe add a 20% slow instead of 40? Or add a slow at lvl 11/16? Maybe scale down the channeling time? Make her untargetable after leaping into the air? Add E's snare duration(bad idea)? WE NEED SOMETHING TO MAKE IT MORE BALANCED.

Or, then again, im just a carbage forever silver player, but seriously, in most cases, i would rather flash than use my ultimate, or then specifically adjust my build path in order to pop out my ult, it feels like i get stomped in every single matchup unless the enemy player's seriously bad, anyone else feeling similiar?