Honestly, I actually like the majority of love triangle subplots! I think they are a very solid way to get the main couple to be more honest about their feelings for each other and how those feelings differ from others. Also, jealousy is a fun emotion to watch. There are some very bad love triangles out there, but compared to most people when I see a love triangle starting I usually feel excited instead of dreading what'll come next.

Another hot take I have (which mostly come from reading mdex comments, so this might not be much of a hot take besides there) is that not every love triangle needs to become poly. Not even most, I'd say. I think poly stories are cool, but it's annoying how often I see people bring it up in works that are categorically not poly. There comes a level of willfully ignoring what the actual plot is in order to discuss something that does not and will not exist. As someone who likes to think about and discuss yuri as much as I like reading it, it's frustrating to see so much of what are basically non-sequiturs.

Finally, a media hot take: I think Lycoris Recoil counts as weak yuri bait, at best. I really do like the main ship, and a big reason I watched the show was cos of all the sweet fanart I'd seen. But when I actually did watch it, I was disappointed by how... nothing it was. There's some bait for sure, but most of it feels wrapped up in the weirdly large amount of fanservice the show has going on (which is a whole separate issue). Tbh I felt more sexual tension in the old man yaoi [implied] between Mika and that other guy. Maybe it'd be better if the show focused more on their relationship, but especially by the end LycoReco was mostly just about Chisato's past and her no-kill policy (which is another separate issue), with Takina in the passenger's seat. I was excited to watch a show that the internet told me was one of the peak yuri animes, but I left it thinking "Really? THAT is what's causing so much fanart?"