I can say the same for why there didn’t need to be a wall, just blame gaijin that the BRs were so compressed. Point being that 9.7 jets were not so in dire need of protection that they needed to invalidate every jet north of the blocker until top tier
I play 9.3 just to use the Ayit. To me, there is no better 9.3, it is the F-104 pest control.