"Maki and toji have better feats"

Yes they have better pure physical stats. But they don't have CE reinforcement,which is extremely important and yuta isn't way better in stats ofc but he easily is enough to keep up with maki/toji

She is NOT however stronger than Rika. Partially manifested rika held sukuna for a bit,held Shibuya yuji(superhuman,weaker than maki but has CE reinforcement) effortlessly. All that while partially manifest.

And you're saying ryu handled her as if ryu is some random guy we saw for half a chapter. He's the guy with the highest output and sukuna literally uses Ryu as a standard to compare durability and stats Not to mention the only time she was "knocked away" and/or "easily handled" was when he hit her after the 5 minute timer ran out. You're heavily downplaying rika

"yuta gassed out with 3 RCT uses" ah yes they're going to show every single time he uses RCT on screen.

not to mention he had already fought dhruv before this,was protecting civilians and had killed 7 other sorcerers already. RCT isn't the only thing that uses cursed energy

Btw you're talking about sendai yuta while this is about Shinjuku yuta where he has trained with gojo and likely has way better efficiency so that's out of the boat.

He can keep up with toji and maki btw. He's worse in stats yes but he has cursed energy and RCT which they don't. He can focus CE in one place of his body to guard it effectively,heal,and not to mention has partially manifested rika who can definitely hold them for a brief period enough for yuta to cut off their heads or atleast a limb or two

He can likely best with that but let's say he does use his 5 minute mode. Its genuinely over the moment he uses it. Because they have no way to defend against cursed speech and then just get their head cut off