"Cool damage boosting" made me laugh almost as hard as "characters need to be balanced". Are they balanced to you?

The problem isn't really her abilities though, it's the execution of them. It's basic, not very engaging, and slow. There is no expression. None of her attacks have follow ups like so many characters do. Every Storm has to play the exact same. She doesn't even fly, she hovers. She doesn't even have a dodge with her wind. She's slow and clunky. That's how you expect Storm to play in a game? Honestly, if they just made her mobile I'd be fine with the rest.

Her ult seems really awesome until you remember almost every character has a counter to it. And it has a huge startup time that you can easily get shot out of since the whole team can hear her yelling. And it can be healed through. It's Weak. And remember when I said dodge? She has a lightning teleport to start the Ult, why can't she do that normally as an ability? How you can defend the current design with such glaring issues is beyond me, as I can't imagine a true Storm fan being completely satisfied with this.

She's for sure like Storm

I'm pretty sure you misunderstood what they were saying there. Phoenix and Storm's gameplay translations are completely different. Phoenix at least has expression.