eeethe most complex jump you can do w/o the gunboats is really different than the most complex jump u can do with them u literal child
No it's not. You can still do the most complex jump without gunboats as long as you have unlimited health. You don't seem to understand that the skill of rocket jumping itself doesn't require gunboats. Gunboats emphasizes the skill of rocket jumping by allowing you to survive doing the most complex jumps, but you don't require gunboats to actually do the most complex jump. It's the same with booties, they emphasize the skill of sticky jumping by allowing you to do more jumps but they don't actually add anything to sticky jumping itself.
Like how much more clearly do I have to explain, gunboats allow you to take less damage when rocket jumping but don't actually add anything to rocket jumping itself, so it emphasizes a skill that the soldier already has.