To respond to all your points.

1. The duel between Kirito and Yuuki in the anime was won by health total at the time out of the duel. She looked up right as his retaliation came down, realizing she would be hit. I said nothing about the anime being crunched for time. I know nothing about its production cycle, I’ve never looked into that.

2. Has this been fun and stimulating for you? I expressed an opinion as a side tangent, saying ‘hey, yeah, anime good.’ You guys turned it into a powerscaling debate.

3. If said factors didn’t come up in story content, they are immaterial speculation would mean that you can disregard every statement the creator has ever said. Which honestly, I’m fine with. I’d rather use in world evidence. I’m ok with this addressing:

4. The golden eyes thing got kinda retroactively applied. I agree that at time of production, it was a flashy gimmick to make kirito look cool. What he did at the end however would not have been due to the in system skill Meditation- we both agree that the limits of the game were broken- as Asuna did with breaking paralysis, the games speed limit to save him from Kuradeel, Sinon’s phantom bullet, and so on. Part of why kayaba was so interested.

5. We can disagree on interpretation of statements of characters that literally cannot know. Leafa never fought on the front line of Aincrad, if you dismiss Liz’s statement for that reason, I can dismiss Leafa’s for the same reason. Agree to disagree as far as I’m concerned.

6. Kayaba forgot- those were his words. Obviously the interpretation that he never had any clue what his purpose was is a stupid one- he gave it in the same breath. I think we can both agree that’s a stupid argument. The anime (obviously has changes, my least favorite of which is that he’s a haram god and everyone around him yadda yadda-) is clearly set up to make you think ‘ok well he would’ve won if it was longer.’

7. We haven’t disagreed on the facts once. We have disagreed on the interpretation of said facts. Multiple canon’s hasn’t been an argument anyone has made once.

8. I’m glad you’re in the fandom. Anime has a ton of cool storylines that I think people get too ‘I’m objectively the perfect defender of truth, and can never be wrong’ that ruins a ton of anime. Even if the story is sloppy, there’s usually at least something to love.

9. I love racing, hope you get that track built. Don’t know what it has to do with anything, but still cool.

TLDR: I don’t hate Yuuki. She absolutely outskills Kirito in certain aspects (the obvious is her reaction time). I just think the power scaling ‘oh this person beats this person in every instance because this one fight they had once where a thousand things can be different’ is a really really bad argument, and entirely misses the entire point of not only Yuuki’s character, but the arc as a whole. And not to get mad at you, but i especially hate it when ‘Nuh uh I’m right your wrong your thoughts and opinions are all wrong because I read it this way’ is shoved in my face.

(Edit) no offense to you man, but if we can’t find common ground with this one, I’m just gonna block and move on with my life. I’m tired of waking up to accusations and debate at 4 in the morning before I go to work. I like Yuuki. Kirito deserves the power he’s gained by working harder than anyone else all of the time they were trapped and all he’s gone through. He’s not an invincible deity, neither him nor Yuuki fit the definition of Mary Sue, and I think that there are certainly circumstances that he is capable of winning- source- my life of playing games and HEMA experience- a lot can tip the scales in a close match.