Is it just me or did riot basically do a reverse viktor on pantheon?

For those of you who were around for viktors release, you may remember his lore and interaction in said lore with jayce. The dude was meant to be some ridiculously badass progenitor of a mechanical+human revolution, and gets his ass beat by a guy who literally JUST developed a hammer, Jayce rolls into his secret base, blows everything up, whoops his ass and leaves, and viktor basically goes "wahh muh revenge" and joins the league to shit on jayce.

It was horrible, viktor was a laughingstock. But they changed the lore because they realized that they really neutered the type of guy Vik was supposed to be and turned him into a badass scientist of higher caliber than Jayce.

And now we have Pantheon, original lore puts him as one of the greatest warriors EVER, unstoppable and consumed with bloodthirst and fighting with no end. He cares not for good or evil, as long as he has a cause to fight, nothing can put him down, nothing can make him tremble.

and then came the new lore.

Pantheon lost his status as a badass warrior and instead became the aspect of war, pretty boss not gonna lie. Except, why does the aspect of war need to possess people and kill them and temporarily take hold of their bodies? Meanwhile the aspect of the sun and moon get an even better version of that by allowing the host sentience and bestowing godlike powers upon them. Furthermore, why go from god of WAR, into a cowering buffoon who trembles at a coy sentence from aurelion sol. All the while enslaving and doing nothing short of practically begging (very fearful and unsure "Commanding") aurelion to help him, and then to top it all off Aurelion Sol instakills pantheon BY ACCIDENT.

like what kind of shit is this?

The real pantheon would have scoffed at the concept of help, and would have jumped into a sea of voidborne entities while painting a picasso with their goo.

You basically took a really awesome god of war berserker spartan, and turned him into a god of war slavemaster coward who needs to basically do the equivalent of a parasitic takeover of someones body to even have any chance of being in the real world.

This is the most disappointing lore since viktors original one. I get it, you guys on the lore team want to emphasize how aurelion sol is nigh-unstoppable and a being of far greater power than we can ever imagine ( which really brings way more of a disconnect between lore and in-game than the old institute of war type lore ever did, at least the old lore would explain why obviously godly beings would not just insta-gib the map, for example, xerath being chained up.).

Jeez man, I've been playing since beta, and while I never liked pantheons gameplay, he was always one of the coolest champions thematically, and this lore just makes me think of him in such a shit light. He is not only a villain now, but he is a villain you can't even respect.