So western countries should have pretended that adenovirus vaccines are on par with mRNA vaccines such that people in Africa would have been more willing to use it?
Theres a certain level of "we dont have data to prove it" but that isnt the same thing as "we expect this to be less effective."
If the specific protein creates less immunity, or towards a variant, they do have time to modify it as well. There is a difference between the technology being inferior, and this implementation being inferior.
It's bad faith to downplay the benefits of viral vector shots, with regard to logistics and handling.