Honestly if Riot had pushed Yasuo's concept a little further he would be so much more interesting

Ok, so his Q is basically supposed to be his auto-attack, right? It can crit, it had a super short cooldown that's made even lower by attack speed, it's resourceless, and not affected by cdr.

The idea was "Melee carries are kinda tough to make work, so let's give one a ranged aoe a ability, hut balance it by making it a skillshot"

Ok, that sounds kinda busted but has a real trade-off - so_ what if we removed his basic attacks?_

Q would have to be buffed a little bit, but we'd no longer have "Shit, Yas has reachched critical mass and now he just es on me and three-shots me without Q"

Would it be weird and gimmicky and hard to balance? Sure! Is Yasuo already weird and gimmicky and hard to balance? Yup!

It would be so much more interesting if the actually let him be a little clunky and weird in exchange for breaking the rules he breaks. Remove his e-q combo, remove his basic attacks, and he has to land skillshot to do anything - seems much more fair.