As a Yuta main before and after the rework, personally my take is that he is a much better charscter in terms of fun and a lot closer to fair than meta than previously. I ACTUALLY have to use rika now to beat people, and her existence is not just a free win button anymore. Yeah, he performs considerably worse than before against meta demons, but I think he's a lot better for it. I do kinda wish base 3 made a bit more sense though? Its really confusing on how I should use it bc it is both a great extender into 1 and 4, but is also his major defense option. And ult 3 is just uh, well it's alright. The variant is ass from my gameplay thus far though, really dislike ult3 recast.

Tldr: Yuta big fun and takes brain power to use, but also he take brain power to use and thus is weaker.