You young pups think you know everything. Try Googling the Hawker Harrier from the mid 1960s. VTOL has been around for half a century. Longer than that if you go back to the Kestrel.
I am well aware of both the Hawker Harrier and the predecessor airframe called Kestrel. They were bad compromises made then, and they were more of an engineering experiment than a real and serious implement of defense and aerial assault.
Crash and burn come to mind.