Agreed, and most of the mods just made the aircraft do what it was supposed to do. Thus they were easy to adapt to, individually. But add NVGs etc and there was no way we could be comfortable we had even the right tactics. Wiser heads than me were saying we could at least have had the switches in (e.g. fluff & chairs), so we could have been practiced at hitting the right buttons, even if the expensive stuff wasn't fitted for a while/till the balloon went up.
...and deployed NBC ops hadn't even been considered.
I still feel F3 wasn't ready.