Frankly these are not the boogiemen you think they are. The Jaguar A, Super Etendard, A-6, Q-5L, and AMX have been doing the same thing for much longer.
Frankly it’s a worthy give to be able to get the F-4E back into the bracket it should have been in from the beginning. People forget the F-4E was fighting the 2S6 in for a long time in Top Tier GSB before 11_2 and 10_2 were split