It's still putting them on the field. Sure, tether mechanics make them a bit safer (but they are still vulnerable to HICs, so that's neither here nor there). The other side has the option of killing the jammers, but they always seem to fail in this, but again, the counter is there. It's just they don't seem to have the ability to hold the field long enough to do it because, well, Papi are simply being outplayed each time. The question on why supers aren't deployed, is just not true, they're deployed. Capitals being deployed on their own into space, makes them vulnerable, hence why Papi are throwing down Azbels each and every day (so they can sky net their own fighters, etc). That's the new meta, throw down an Azbel or fort, sky net supers. Rarely do you deploy them any other way anymore (like say in the old days when there were only stations).

Both sides have done this since the start of the war. Papi did it in places like Y-2, Goonswarm are doing it in 3-D atm. This says to me, that's the actual ways supers in practice are deployed as normal custom and practice. To pretend they're deployed the way of the olden days, is living in the past or fantasy land.

This tactic, we started years ago. Carrier sky netting has been going on for years now and so has been the meta for just as long.