Japan's naval aircrew rotation failure

Did Japan's emphasis on range and agility in the Zero cause the collapse of its naval air arm?

The larger problems were air-group personnel management, especially the failure to rotate experienced crews home to train replacements and form new squadrons, and Japan's limited industrial capacity.

Aircraft weaknesses could be managed when skilled pilots understood how to exploit their machine's advantages. Japan kept too much experience in combat instead of cycling veterans into instruction and newly forming units. The replacement system therefore struggled to preserve tactical knowledge as losses mounted. Even a better rotation system would still have faced Japan's inferior industrial depth.