A.31 - A.35 ?
Stanwell (your #8087),
Never having flown one, but I'd be fairly confident that the 4° AoI would make a poor aircraft a little better. For a start, it would "sit" properly in the cruise, and not go round "dragging its #rse" as it did, and final approach would not need to be in a three-point attitude, but apart from that landing and taxying would be normal, and the visibility round the nose no worse than (say) a Spitfire.
The 64-dollar question was "how would it dive ?" Re-trimming nose-heavy as you accelerated in the dive would be an extra job you could well do without, and on pull-out a load of nose-down trim was what you didn't need when you were "greyed out" and in no position do much about it.
As I've said before, it would make it a better aircraft, but a worse dive bomber.
Danny.
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