I can see the desire to avoid the space with a superscript, but that is a latex specific formatting issue, that is probably taken care of with some package. In the packages we use (usually natmove), citations are moved to the correct side of punctuation, for example, so we always put them on the left where the logically make sense (eg because it is "grouped" in the sentence being cited. the latex package moves the superscripts to the right. I think it also works on spaces In org-mode some text[[cite:yoo-2014-theor-analy]] is also "ugly" ;) and harder to read. That gives us the best of both worlds (org and latex)
I don't think I have done anything to make the naked links work.