Tribal versus Fletcher depends on the mission

Is one wartime aircraft or destroyer simply inferior to its foreign counterpart?

Only against a stated mission and metric, because designs such as Tribal and Fletcher optimize different tasks.

Fletcher suits the American combination of tasks, while Tribal fits the British role for which it was designed. Their speed, guns, endurance, sensors, and doctrine answer different operational requirements. A blanket ranking hides the metric that determines which trade-off matters. One becomes preferable only after the navy and mission have been specified.