I am sure your opinion will differ from mine.
I think the nerfs were very reaonable. He can’t get the full output of his RP now for the same wind-up time, in effect if he lets go on RP at the same time as before, he gets 71% of his prior damage. That’s huge… or he can wait the full 1.4 seconds giving his victim time to counter-play. The shield nerf feels right, we’ll see. OTOH, its been the case that every time they raise his counters he’s just broken and F-tier… all in all, I think it was a good change.