Ionia has always had acess to the best costed "removal" in the game in the form of bounces.

It remains the only way to simultaneously deal with big units, equipment, and attachments and buffed stats instantly under curve.

So with the huge surge of Illoi and Jax decks who specialize in big pp units with infinite value its no surprise that the answer is 4 mana boops back to hand.

How do I feel about this personally?

As a mtg player I like removal, I like control, I like hard answers to plays. Ionia specializes in being able to soft answer everything while delaying for their wincon.

Turns out tho that's very good right now.

The meta circle will look like this.

Big PP midrange > aggro

Ionia > midrange

Aggro > Ionia

I dont find rock paper scissors metas super compelling so I hope we see some interesting decks and developments break this stalemate soon.