>>23360677
Even if they did they would’ve been somewhat helpless in space without hefty modifications and reconfiguration, take the GPO1 for instance. This is a high capability mobile suit however it was specifically made as a test type for ground operations. Sure kou wasn’t the best pilot around but it wasn’t his fault either that it struggled in space. If the gouf was accepted over the dom perhaps a space type variant would’ve been made but it just simply didn’t