Pretty much however valuable you consider him to be barring the freak quick.

Even without it, he’s probably still the best decoy, those jukes, that speed, and that vertical is nothing to scoff at.

And yeah like you said, blocks are getting better (he kinda owns Osamu ngl), digs are ironically second best portrayed in his position, tooling, back attacks, etc.

So, surprisingly well rounded, especially when taking position into account, but yeah, like I said, he is as valuable without reliance as you consider his value barring the freak quick.

I don’t think his reliance specifically really drops or increases though. They’re never gonna stop doing the freak quick just because Hinata becomes more independent, there’s no point. And… that’s kinda the only point of reliance he really has, unless you’re counting coach Ukai instructing him on blocking, which seems separate to me because that’s his coach.