>>63864592
Oh yeah no bones about it.
Just pointing out that the less ambitious, almost to the point of laziness Yak jet family survived longer than the mig-9, which never got a trainer variant beyond a proposal run of two planes because it was a sexy disaster to fly, also expensive.
The Yak even eventually got a nene put in it like the mig-15 for whatever reason as the Yak-23 and was kept around until the MIG-15 well and truly proved how much of a massive leap it was.