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>We can reasonably state an AC2 manufactured in 3200 is going to have features, machining and quality greater than one slapped together in 3025
And this is just headcanon, no we can not, that's not how it is.
An autocannon 5 manufactured in 2240 is going to have literal identical effectiveness to one manufactured in 3150. Base technology is never improved, only new, better technologies are introduced, but more often it's sidegrades of questionable superiority at best.
Battletech is an extremely technologically stagnant setting, and this wouldn't even be a bad thing if it didn't have such blatant, arbitrary, out of place exceptions which foul that whole angle.
Basically, the clans completely trash all the writing of battletech.