User blog comment:Dracko40/The Angry Illithid: Really? Four Hours?/@comment-3358335-20110426201613/@comment-2151607-20110427145734

Like Exiton said, his utility gain is much better than the loss of denying, which in League is impossible to balance. It forces your opponents to overextend while being underleveled, allowing for easy ganks and a large power ratio. This isn't something new anyway: They've been talking about removing it for a while now.

Most of the changes were for the better.