no, and even though i love yay, theres a couple reasons:
- yay didn't have as much to prove as demon1. together with the rest of that roster, EG had everything to prove as all the odds were against them. however, if yay was in the roster, then EG wouldn't have had that drive because yay at the time was the most decorated player of all time
- 2023-24 yay had a really bad mental. yay has a very high standard for himself (a collective problem for ex-optic players) and playing at the very top for two years straight would have befuddled his mental state. pre-demon1 era EG was really just not good, and although the team became one of the best of all time throughout the year, at the beginning, after losing some games, yay's mental would have been shit, which would cause him to tilt. currently he's got a good mental after he started hitting the gym and took time for himself, but in 2023, it wouldn't have gone so well.