Phantom Lancer: Why no PL in TI?

Please don't write thing in cyan, it really hurts my eyes.

As of your question, generally any hardcarries without a bit of early-game presence are AFAIK not picked in the current meta, as it is focused on earlygame and Phantom Lancer is utterly useless early and early-mid game. He really need items, and even with Diffusal Blade he isn't powerful enough, and he is quite squishy and vulnerable to AOE and cleaves. While many carries can cover their weaknesses with Black King Bar or some other defensive item, Phantom Lancer can't really protect his illusions other than Pipe of Insight and even then his illusions are squishy and heroes like Kunkka won't notice them at all while original PL can be quite tracked and killed without much difficulty.

But if he isn't countered he absolutely rekz, true, especially after few Butterflys(freakin' scrublords, didn't let me get 4th one though I had muny for it).

this, also becouse naga is better.
minus armor+disable+awesome ult. against just spells that help your illusions.

Phantom Lancer is IMO too reliant on his illusions. He has no other strengths than that.

If a fight starts when he has no illusions he is just your regular right clicker with a not so big nuke before getting of enough hits to start his illusion army, whereas Naga can just pop her ult, get everyone in position and create her illusions to begin the fight in her favour (or just TP away if she is caught off guard). PL takes too much time to get online and there are better rats in the game.

Also I think it's a quite big weakness that he actually has to be near to get his ratting going.

To counter your view I would add how fast PL can create his illusion army with high agility, which he can get easily by mid game

However, what about his escaping ability?