the idea of cosmic karma in hashino's fictional universe explicitly allowing yosuke to be an asshole to kanji and naoto is bleak enough that i believe it
if they're serious about changing him, 3x the bad karma he earned from that in the original should just hit him all at once in the remake.
that part about how slapstick comedy rule doesn't apply when he's being nasty towards kanji and naoto is a very good observation... i've been wondering why i just don't vibe with him despite how everyone hyped him up,