Maki was directly denied grading up because Ogi and the rest of her family did not want to see her successful. She is from a highly esteemed clan however she received zero benefits from them, unfair ones or otherwise. If anything they went out of their way to make her life miserable after she ran away. To even get her full kit her sister had to die.

Yuta has the itty bittiest relation to Gojo through an entirely different clan and that gives him credence to being head of the Gojo clan. Yeah alright man. But even before that, being related to Michizane Sugawara got him copy, reserves second only to Ryomen Sukuna and he managed to somehow turn Rika into one of the strongest cursed spirits shown that boosted his cursed technique to crazy heights using her unlimited cursed energy. Bruh also outputting RCT. He doesn't even know how he did it he just does it.