In related news, the military is now discontinuing the use of hammers and wrenches because they are based on an old design.
Actually, they’d hand out leathermen and take all wrenches, hammers, knives, corkscrews, pliers, tweezers, saws, screwdrivers, awls, etc etc since they have a new all in one tool that does the role.
It should be a simple questions does the F-35 fill the role of the A-10 leaving no loss in agility and power? It clearly does not. Stop forcing the F-35 to do the A-10s job and you’ll save enough money to run the A-10 program.