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The problem that I have is that they didn't break up, there are hardly any examples of this happening.
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There are plenty of examples.
Honesty, the whining about this issue has become legendary.
Why are such a small group of people is such denial about a 60 year old airplane??
An inertial elevator was added to the design.
Why would they do that???
The only reason to add such a device....
IS TO INCREASE STICK FORCES IN ORDER TO OVER COME LONGITUDINAL INSTABILITY.
There is no other reason for it.
Inertial elevator is the fix for only one thing...longitudinal instability.
Did other airplanes recieve inertial elevators? Of course, it was not invented by Supermarine despite the fact many seem to think of them as the wellspring of aviation. Other airplanes have stability and control issues that give them unique personalities.
All the tap-dancing and attempts to underplay that fact the Spitfire was longitudinally unstable in all conditions of flight at normal and aft CG are just not credible in any fashion.
Now the logic seems to be that if other airplanes had issues then the Spitfire get's a pass.
Why does it get a pass? Some people want to have the speed, climb, and turn performance in an overmodeled stable platform.