As a bald-liker, I'll be sad if the happy ending for this manga is one where she'll have her hair grown. We got the rarest instance of bald yuri right here.
That Yoshida panel is an intriguing one because it makes me remember back when Tomoko consciously acted distant with Ucchi because she thought our normie Emoji wouldn't want to be associated with a creepy loner. We can't be sure as of now for what Yoshida's thoughts are so it's just a...
It's been long cemented in the manga itself that Yuri sees Mako as a mom (Yuri said she would be okay with kissing other girls in a play as long as it doesn't involve Mako for this reason). The same is also hinted for how Minami sees Mako, in fact, there's a parallel between Yuri and Minami in...
Hiro has drawn "younger-than-they-look" characters before so it's the most likely interpretation but there's something about this story that gives me the feeling the mangaka's loli apperance could be how she sees herself rather than how she is seen by others.