Its so old, its new again!
But really, the hyper-agility thing may have come and gone. The Tejas has advanced (more or less) avionics, a nice radar, look-down-shoot down capability vs cruise missiles and etc., long range missiles (MBDA ASRAAM).
And in theory anyway, if it weren’t for its interminable development time, probably cheap.
Indeed so. Being cheap means there can be many more produced. And remember, we didn’t have the best stuff in WW II, but we did have the ability to produce a h*ll of a lot of each unit. The F-35 may be a top of the line fighter, but there are few of them, and each is useless without equally expensive missiles. In addition, each has electronics which require replacement, not repair when (not if) things go microsoft on it.