In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set - then at least I'll own something that has always worked."
– Hermann Göring, 1943.
And here's what he thought his epitaph should have read; "He would have lived longer but for the Me 210"
I think the issue was a matter of timing; as unlikely as it was, if the Germans had the Mosquito from late 1940, I think they would have gladly put it into production, all things considered. The Bf 110 would have been the likely airframe for replacement by the Mosquito (or
Moskito), rather than the Ju 88, but of course some roles would have merged between both types. The Germans didn't miss a trick and were likely to have rewarded the designer with a production contract based on its performance alone, although you can guarantee that changes in priorities and meddling from the RLM might have meant that its career might not have been as stellar as it was in reality. With the issues surrounding the development of the Me 210, if something came along that proved more straight forward in development that offered better performance, it's likely that it would have been put out of its misery sooner.
Test pilot Fritz Wendel had this to say about the 210; ""The Me 210 was the greatest miss-construction beside the He 177", and "Even the totally new designed Me 410 could not fulfill all of our expectations."
I agree, Wuzak, the issue that held up Mosquito development to begin with was perception of the concept by the Air Staff. Even before the prototype had flown, the RAF insisted on changes to the aircraft's armament or lack thereof and requested that a production contract would only be issued if it was fitted with a rearward facing gun turret. GdeH argued the loss of performance and he was allowed to produce the unarmed variant as a concept aircraft alongside the turret armed prototype. Freeman's intervention saw that the turret armed Mosquito was not built. This cautious approach still remained even after the prototype had flown, despite its excellent performance and it took some convincing the Air Staff of the feasibility of a high speed unarmed bomber, or a "Speed Bomber", as Ludlow-Hewitt put it.