Making the attacker armor up their drones and missiles also means making them a lot more expensive and harder to make, to the point where firing a kinetic inter

Making the attacker armor up their drones and missiles also means making them a lot more expensive and harder to make, to the point where firing a kinetic interceptor makes sense again. So the defender wins either way. The same goes for shiny mirrors, smoke, etc. By the time you're finished you've got a million dollar attacker.