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Beware the double standards. If you take early-UC then you accept scarce newtype, if you take late-UC then you accept jammers, NT-D and newtype are still scarce.
You argue to mass-produce newtype & funnels (and late UC kind too) but pretend we can't mass produce jammers? They didn't get mass-produced because newtype are still rare late UC and you don't strictly -need- it to kill funnels user.
You argue to have newtypes "weaponize their connections" but reject a hacking system that's do exactly that with less complication.

Nothing so far "make MS pointless". It's still the usual wunderwaffen MA to be shot down by top level MS.
don't mind me posting the MA that match your plans

>How are you planning on mass producing this?
More easily than you'll find / mass-produce newtype.
A normal soldier can activate jammer INCOM, it's probably even more effective on funnels that already have trouble getting orders from their newtype, and the NT-D don't need all the extra features, just psycho-frame to link pilot-funnels.

>And no one does.
They do and did even when it was brand new, the rare newtype in a MS killed the rare newtype in a MA.
Funnels are only game-changer in the hand of exceptional newtype, they are fragile to wide area explosion, they have poor aim even close, they don't really dodge as much as move randomly in quantity to overwhelm. Newtype sure don't micromanage each.

>You understand that the funnel unit being able to operate from further back means the ship gets to hang further back as well, right?
It seems my sarcasm was a victim of Poe's law.
You basically recognize that you still need to deploy funnels at MS range, if your spaceship is following so close you can "resupply anytime", it's close enough to be shot down while they are changing your loadout for MS combat.
Assuming of course you didn't get killed by your own funnel when the enemy activated a surprise NT-D.