Also, there has been a bunch of follow-on Macross media that shows gradual development of the same mecha model series in-universe, with changes to control schem

Also, there has been a bunch of follow-on Macross media that shows gradual development of the same mecha model series in-universe, with changes to control schemes, production models of machines that were prototypes in previous series, weird offshoots as an explicit result of the complications of military vehicle development, and so on.