As far as I was told with Anna lovelace- so yes she’s replacing the model, but then Yan Lo replaces using the Gokudo model-
So that gets placed on any board edge as it comes straight back if used to bring in a new model, rather than dying. He gets to re-use the model he’s “summoned” in because it’s now a new model. The upgrade gets moved onto another model, and on top of it all he draws 2 cards.
Any time I got close to maybe removing a model he just does the trick again and it’s back with full wounds and all the focus’ etc of the model it replaced.
Its bad enough that all the stuff in the crew has armour and pumps out shielded, but to be able to just come back full...