People's values change at different stage of their career. I think too many people are stuck with the impression that Yuzu is a reckless and irrational kid who is willing to take unreasonable risk and fall just to get points because he insisted on keeping the 4S in his LP. At that time, he had not won any major title. He was the one that was chasing others. 4S was a rational choice for him at that time because it allowed him to increase the BV significantly and he needed 4S for the future. Even if he didn't win the Sochi Olympics, keeping the 4S in competition would help his 4S consistency in the future. If he removed the 4S, he would lose the time to practice 4S in competitions. Also, judges had never been generous to him before the 2013 GPF anyway. Judges would not take him seriously if he did two 4T because that's what everybody else was doing at that time and he had no major titles or big reputation like the other veterans. Lowering the BV would lower his scores. Even if the ISU increase the deduction for falls at that time, doing 2 different types of quads 4S, 4T is still better than doing two 4T. (In the end, he did win the Olympics thanks to the 4S and Japan hosting the 2013 GPF. Japan has been hosting the GPF right before the Olympics for the past few Olympic cycle. Japan will host the GPF in 2017 again. IMO, hosting the GPF right before the Olympics is the best thing JSF ever did for their athletes. It gives their newbie skaters the momentum going into the Olympics. Yuzu would've lost both the GPF and Olympics if the 2013 GPF was held elsewhere.