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The inequality here doesn't seem to be worse than that between Betza's classical CwDA armies, which can run up to 1.5 Pawn. An Archbishop is only about 0.75 Pawn weaker than a Queen. The KNAD is worth about 1.5 Pawn more than a Queen, but the distant moves here are all lame, which might weaken it more than that. The Griffon is the weakest of the bunch. A possible enhancement of it could be a W-then-R that turns a 90-degree corner, which has a similar move pattern, but also attacks the W squares.
Even if the strengths vary a lot, there is of course no need to play the strongest against the weakest. Or only reserve that for games between players of unequal strength, as a sort of handicap.
Note that the Betza notation used in the article (e.g. FtR) is non-standard, neither original Betza (t[F,R]) nor XBetza (FyafsF). As a consequence it is not entirely clear to me how the Lion moves. I suspect it is the compount of a King, a Xiangqi Elephant, a Xiangqi Horse and a two-path lame Dabbabah (XBetza KaFafsW).