Garry I fully agree.

For vessels in the size of Gorshkov a cat is not a good solution.

Not for the Americans though. If you already have steam catapaults in your inventory and it is a mature technology then using them even on smaller carriers makes sense even if they are only used for AEW aircraft.
It is when you need to develop cat technology from scratch that the benefits don’t outweigh the cost or time involved to get it right.

While Kutznetsov an only use Position 3 if Position 2 is empty.

It could if the launch sequence was 2 + 1 + 3.