It should not be allowed to go out of commission. It should evolve, grow, adapt, change over time. New modules can be added, old ones removed. Much easier to build with something to start with then to start from scratch once again.
Don’t tell the government. Excellent airborne weapons platforms like the F-16 and F/A-18 could have been upgraded with canards, thrust vectoring exhaust, and the shape changed with external panels to make them more stealthy for a tiny fraction of producing the F022 and F-35.
V-GER????
We can't even get up to the thing, and evidently have no idea when we might again.