The counter-argument, I suppose, is that the SNP leadership handed Yousaf these challenging appointments because they trusted him to make as good a job of them as possible.
I really don't understand the logic behind blaming him or the SNP for the state of the NHS when the Tory-run NHS in England and the Labour-run NHS in Wales are in similar (if not worse) positions, all having been affected by the same external pressures and only the Tories having the power to actually make any significant budgetary changes. What are we measuring his performance against? How do we determine what was or is possible? If pre-pandemic service levels could have been achieved already under a different party, why have they not been where those parties are in power?