Why Austro-Hungarian destroyers mixed gun sizes poorly

How useful was the Austro-Hungarian destroyer layout of larger bow and stern guns with smaller broadside guns?

The arrangement receives little support unless the small guns serve a separate anti-aircraft role. They did not in the period discussed, and other navies did not copy the layout.

The smaller port and starboard guns receive little support as part of the main armament. The answer would retain them only for a distinct anti-aircraft role, which it says they did not have in this period. The larger guns forward and aft therefore do not make the mixed arrangement persuasive. Austro-Hungarian destroyer designs are described as interesting experiments whose failure to attract imitators limits the case for the layout.