There's some good information in here, but I also disagree with framing of some things here.
1) i believe this is in accordance with what I wrote.
2) some of this is down to design, which was made far easier by the cavity magnetron.
3) The switch to a longer wavelength was a very smart move and a good piece of luck, but it does not relate to any improved technical capabilities of the radar. In fact, a lower frequency would have likely caused greater angular error, but to what degree I have no idea.
4) My bad! I missed that. Still, the point about higher peak power output stands. Not needing two different modes helps.
5) I am discussing the pre-history. There is a claim that I believe that the Japanese actually built a cavity magnetron a full year before the British, but they had some frequency stability issues and the Japanese were not interested in pursuing radar for military applications until seeing British centimetric radars. The people I know who study Japanese Navy stuff note that they had quite advanced naval radars towards the end of the war, but training was poor, few were deployed, and not employed well. I don't claim to be an expert there, but I do know their use of radar was not ideal.
6) My bad! I must have been basing my assumptions on their attempts at centimetric radars.
7) the point is that the cavity magnetron allowed a wavelength of choice to be generated with little weight, size and difficulty when compared to klystrons, which are amplification tubes and not frequency generators that provided a direct, full power output.
This is why centimetric radars were difficult back then without the cavity magnetron, because tube-based oscillator circuits that would provide frequencies in the GHz range are difficult to make, as I understand it.
Klystrons are good for amplification of a single frequency, but they are not particularly good for (most) military radars. The big breakthrough with PD radars was the development of a stable oscillator design, as I understand it. And I don't know what was lacking there. Either way, the Hughes MOPA (Master Oscillator Power Amplifier) system that led to the development of ASG-18 included a new innovation for microwave applications: the traveling wave tube. The TWT was invented by a German, working for the brits, in 1943 and brought to operational readiness by Hughes in the 1950s. Outside of some high power applications such as the MSR for Safeguard or early applications like the AWG-10, TWTs largely replaced Klystrons in military radar applications, and by now solid state systems have largely replaced both.
Also, FuG220 used triode amplification and not a klystron.