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That's just the eternal seesaw between basing everything on the TV series where GMs are worthless red shirt mooks that explode if you look at them and some degree of reasonableness as subsequently added to Gundam III. This choice of interpretation also affects all subsequent works themselves, with shows like 0080 or Unicorn having even the coolest most bad ass MSV derivative GMs function as glorified target boards and others like 0083 having them as main cast caliber MS.