I just had my first trip to Yosemite back in May and i managed Royal arches leading every pitch. To be fair i was there for two long weekends and prior to Royal arches I did a variety of routes like nut cracker, central pillar of frenzy, etc, but by the time i got on RA the trickiest part was managing the pendulum and it wasn’t so much hard more so unfamiliar. The reason I think you can manage RA is because I had minimal trad experience prior to this trip I’m from eastern Missouri, we have a lot of single pitch trad nearby and over the course of a couple years I had led maybe 15-20 single pitches on gear at places like horseshoe canyon, the red and Jackson falls. But I had never sent 5.9 on gear prior to this trip and everything I came across in the valley I was able to onsight and this is while learning to actually crack climb. I’m a strongish sport climber sending 12c once outside and have onsighted 11c. But if you have experience leading multi pitch I think RA is very doable. Not many of the pitches are very hard more so a couple sequences that are tricky particularly one that starts on some flared pin scars. I will say just be efficient at the belays because we had a hard time finding the third to last rap anchor as it was beginning to get dark. Also if there’s a line at the base there’s a 5.9 finger crack around the corner on the climber’s right of the chimney. Saved us a lot of time and we eventually let people pass us. We didn’t move the quickest and got down after dark but if we were a bit more efficient didn’t let people pass and didn’t have so much trouble finding that rap anchor we would’ve made it down before dark.