It literally does matter so you are literally 100% wrong… literally.
If you were correct, though you absolutely are not, and performance was all that matters then perhaps try explaining why the two Tornado F.3’s in the UK tree are at different BR’s… they’re not even in the same Rank. Tell me, what is the significant defining difference between them? Its almost as if they are displaced from each other for something other than performance…
it makes the f8efn and the IIIC pure cancer to fly sometimes, and the spotting is somehow screwed up these days so they pop up like a jumpscare giving you zero time to react