The article is very good, and has some pretty obscure information, although those aircraft had no impact on WW2.
Note that Japan at the end of WW2 had a severe shortage of trained pilots (ie. none) and fuel.
Both Germany and Japan flew pilots until they died, so there were no experienced pilots to lead the next cohort.
The USA cycled experienced pilots back to the States as instructors, and the USA had an essentially unlimited candidate pool due to the overall level of education, health and farm equipment experience of that era. Japan in the pre-war years were only graduating around 100 pilots/year, so you could compare them to samurai or ninjas, not a broad force.
Giving a jet plane to a pilot with 40 hours of training is suicide, when for example a qualified Navy pilot needed 650+ hours.
Also, the B-29 was designed to fly high, but due to clouds and accuracy, was more successful at 5,000'. So any fighter plane could reach it, if pilots were available.
Ultimately the US military had to carpet bomb urban areas because people were building Zeroes literally at home, and Japan always had at least 10,000 available.
Another thing most people don't realize is that each country improved airplanes over time. So the Zero at the beginning of the war was not the same as the end, and even added modest armor. Both the US and Germany did a tremendous amount of work on wind tunnel testing, water injection and turbocharging that incrementally doubled engine performance.
Unlike the Axis, the US actually shipped dominant production airplanes in volume - P-38 (Kelly Johnson), B-29 and P-51.
The US P-38 won the Pacific War. It used two piston engines to obtain almost jet speeds, and had nose-mounted guns that projected a solid rod of steel through enemy planes. And the pilots were experienced bounty hunters from the Flying Tiger days with absolutely no hesitation. Charles Lindbergh came up with the LoP settings to double fuel efficiency, thus doubling range.
World War II in its waning days was like some kind of Cambrian explosion of plane types for the Axis powers.