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No, you don't. Your intuition is correct.

How did you do the conversion? If you rotated the "yaw/s" as a yaw, the you are doing it wrong.

Angular velocity is the derivate of the angle. So, unless you scale or flip your coordinate system, its magnitude must stay the same. The direction could change, but as we stay in a 2D world it isn't affected.

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