Hard to imagine a backwater village can build megastructure ship.
If they have this skills, their palace would be grand and famous.... Mana logik?

Because of trading.

Just like now cargo ship generally bigger than warships/patrol ship but they have less combat power.

That’s why even Portuguese ship smaller but wins.

And the articles twisted the facts 7 layer masts ship actually refers to Zheng He treasure ships. Jong is big but compare to Chinese naval = mid size level.

But yeah these ppl like to mix facts with mythology them combine malay becum invincible