I'm not going to lie, I think a lot of the complaining has to do with nostalgic based regency bias than anything. Wuk seems fine. I'm just now wrapping up the city introduction but She isn't as bad as the complaints on these forums make it sound. She is like lyse in the sense she is naïve, But unlike lyse where we don't have a full expansions with her and still didn't have a clue about how anything works. Unlike lyse She seems pretty insecure. Her bravado in 6.55 was clearly a show of false confidence and a desperate bid for help.
I kind of feel she is lyse done well. The set up so far is basic and have a lot of tropes, but they can also develop in interesting ways. I am at least interested to see where this goes.
in 6.55 I was pretty sure i wasn't going to like her, But I am pleasantly surprised, Wuk has hints of depth that were never present for lyse until the very end of 4.0.