Reading with interest, I’ve just bought a Giant Reign with a Yari RC DebonAir. Planning to ride the bike for a bit and if the fork isn’t great then maybe upgrade to the Charger damper.
I rode a Yari for nearly 3 years. It was non Debonair and out-of-the-box it way okay, no better. Worse than my old 26” Lyrik.
The main problem was it was very hard to find a balance between being plush at the top end and it diving through its travel on braking and spiking on harsh rock gardens.
Fitting a Luftkappe which works in a similar way to the Debonaire and it made it a lot better, run less tokens and pressure for a plush top end without the diving.
My new bike came with a Lyrik, same chassis, fancier damper, it’s better does the plush v non-dive thing beautifully I can brake really hard on steep / rough stuff if I have to that I couldn’t on my Yari and it covers rough trail better, but it’s not Rocket Surgery, it costs 2 or 3 times as much depending on model so you’d expect it to be better, but you can upgrade a Yari to Lyrik spec for not a lot of money. In fact I’ve seen Yari’s on sale cheap enough to build a Lyrik cheaper than buying one.