I don't know about that. Even though Freedom is becomming outdated, its still extremely overpowered at long range combat - if for no other reason that being able to destroy/disable five mobile suits at once. Unless the next generation of gundams are nuclear powered-positron cannon/shield wearing beasts that wield 4 lightsabers *cough*general greivous*cough* --err beam sabers at once, then I doubt Freedom will become instantly crappy. >.>

Edit: err, and the guy mentioning Strike before was refering to the very short scene where a gundam, that you assume is Impulse, cuts another random mobile suit in half, but if you look closely before it scrolls up you see that they accidentally used Strike instead. Its near 21m 27s.