Of course it’s not all about the suits. And D didn’t suggest it was, it was just Andy who chose to read it this way.
The confidence you get from knowing you have a great equipment is possibly worth more hundredths than the actual performance of the suits. And don’t think for a minute that every country doesn’t try to push the rules as far as they will bend. In this case the fact it came out was just a way to try to get into the team members’ heads. It seems it didn’t work exactly as expected