It's more of your all on the same team so you'd learn to fight together and to play off each other's strengths. No one is useless in a combat unit if they know how to work together. And it would definitely be a little odd to have like 8 people in gundams. Unless we went with how they did it in AD and everyone gets 60 gundams!!!!! Just kidding. But I do think it'd work okay. Plus, the pilots aren't great when they first start out anyway. And some of the custom mobile suits can hold up against a Gundam.