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I also think you're on to something here.
The only reason Konan is dead is because she placed all her bets on one horse and blew herself the ******** up trying to kill Obito.(Which before Kakashi, she had actually come closer to doing than anyone else) We never really got to see the extent of her power.
Also I can't even describe how awesome a pair Jiraiya and Konan would make on the battlefield.
Konan didn't blow herself up, Tobi used this jutsu that forced her to reveal the location of where she hid the Rinnegan (and there's so many things she could have done with those eyeballs) and supposedly when the jutsu ended so would her life but honestly he was holding her up in the air off her feet with one hand. I'm pretty sure she would have choked to death before that jutsu ended, so to me, Tobi had to domestically abuse her to kill her. Yes Konan did come closest to killing Tobi, he even said that if it weren't for the secret technique he would have died.
No we never got to see the full extent of her power but that isn't the reason why I think she and Jiraiya could kill Madara. Konan told Tobi that she studied all of
Madara's battles and devised that plan to kill
him which means her plan would have worked on the real Madara and knowing about the secret technique that Tobi admitted to having, if she was brought back with Edo Tensei, she could revise her plan and most likely succeed in bringing down the real Madara since it was his battles and techniques she studied. Pass that info to a Edo Tensei Jiraiya and the two of them together could probably end Madara. I think that's the real reason those two will never be revived.