Evidently by the number of people excited for this vehicle. It appears it was the correct choice and one there was demand for. It was never going to go anywhere else.
We only plan to introduce one Iranian F-14 to the game currently. Not an early or late. So it will not have time locked loadouts.
As already covered earlier in this thread, “needs” is a worthless term meant to make the subjective “I don’t like that X has Y” sound like something objective.
Ordnance is a balancing tool; its historical timeline and such is irrelevant.