Yeah, I had forgotten quess exists, not gon' lie. That one's actually 13, checking, so you're entirely free to continue seeing everything related to that as sketchy as
hell. Extra sketchy, even. Extra extra sketchy if you scope some of the supporting material*

I actually can't even remember if I've seen char's counterattack. Like,
probably, because there was a period years ago I spent watching through a lot of the older bits of the franchise, but... yeah. Not much in the way of strong memory of it.
... though yeah, amuro's pretty milquetoast for... a lot of the series (which is interesting in some ways 'cause he's killed like a
lot of people over the course of it all). Honestly a lot better in several of the SRW games, where at least he's got legit chops as one of the most skilled and experienced real robot pilots in the series, and the SRW stuff plays that up pretty well a good few times. SRW's got notably decent writing for what amounts to a giant pile of officially published massive crossover fanfics, really...
*There's an official novel/LN that has an illustration of 'er straddling char in her underwear,
apparently. Folks doing content control couldn't countenance amuro with a family, but that was a-okay!