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If we put things back in the contest, at the time of the evaluation the US fighter industry was struggling to produce a viable pony capable to compete with Eu models.
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Certainly.
Stability and control is one area the United States was ahead of other Allied Nations.
The United States pioneered stability and control research. It was the first to quantify the science.
In fact, both the Germans and the Japanese standards were based on Warner, Norton, and Allen's work at MIT as well as Gilruth's work at the NACA.
In 1942, an RAE engineer named Sydney B Gates made his famous (in stability and control engineering circles only, lol ) "dash around America" comparing NACA research to RAE at the time. It was primarily thru Gates efforts that the RAE eventually did adopt a standard but his efforts did not reach fruition until post war. That standard mirrored the NACA's standard.