Supermarine fouled it up with the Attacker.
In the second half of the War,Supermarine had put a lot of time and effort into a Spitfire "replacement" with a re-designed wing with a higher critical Mach number, the Spiteful.
When this was overtaken by the development of the jet, they used the wing, married to a new fuselage with a jet engine, and this became the Attacker. The wing had been designed with the main wheels forward, to go with a tailwheel (perhaps to give ground clearance for a big prop?). Re designing the wing to move the main wheels aft to go with a nosewheel would have involved an unacceptable time delay.