OZBUSDRIVER
Mate: Yup BRS was probably a cheaper fix to a spin problem than cost and time for the testing and design effort to actually provide the certification spin requirement.
It is even possible that it was not possible
to get the target (impressive) performance with the aerodynamic fix required for a non BRS spin recovery.
Its always "on one hand we could ............. and then on the other hand" when certifying an aircraft.