Twin-engine strike aircraft and Britain's light-bomber tradition

Would extra bomb capacity turn twin-engine carrier aircraft into medium-level bombers that struggled against maneuvering ships and small targets?

It could if development followed an American medium-bomber path. The alternative here is a lighter British lineage built around aircraft such as the Beaufighter and Mosquito and the Fleet Air Arm's strike-aircraft tradition.

A viewer warns that greater bomb capacity might steer twin-engine carrier aircraft toward medium-level bombing, leaving them less able to attack maneuvering ships and small targets. That risk exists if the design follows an American medium-bomber path. The counterfactual instead follows Britain's lighter bomber tradition, with the Beaufighter and Mosquito as capable examples and the Fairey Firefly in the Fleet Air Arm's established strike-aircraft lineage. In this version, the aircraft remains a fast multi-role strike platform. The distinction affects dive performance, target selection, and carrier-air-group doctrine.