Had sailing frigates reached perfection?

Did sailing frigates of the Napoleonic Wars come close to design perfection?

They were highly refined, and Hermione's reconstruction showed that several attempted modern improvements worked worse than the historical solutions.

Napoleonic frigates were very good and aesthetically impressive, though they had not reached perfection. Builders of the reconstructed Hermione identified features they expected to improve, only to find that some alterations failed in practice and had to be reversed. Testing the full-size reconstruction exposed interactions between hull, rig, and working practice that were less apparent from plans alone. Accumulated craft knowledge can preserve solutions that are not obvious to modern builders.