No, I wouldn't call it a pig.
Don't think I'd like to drive one if I was in a serious dispute with an F-22, though. (Not really sure about my odds against a Hornet, either, and the 'Bug is a twenty-year-old design.)
Lacking any better information, for now I'll call it Lima Echo Tango = Large, expensive target.
almost 40 year old design! F-18 is based heavily off the YF-17 which had initial conception in the late 1960s.