[Rules] 8.4 Elevation makes no sense to me

[campsawyer]

In my opinion, yes.

But I think I am the only one thinking this way :-D

Yes, I believe you are at the moment. Generally I would still be inclined to combine the fire into the largest BF attack, but the option of ripple firing larger guns is something that I have done with on board guns, this extends it to OBA too.