Yeah, but you can’t tell the A-10 fans out there that their favorite plane is meat on the table for even a 30 year old MiG. That was always the case, BTW. Even when the A-10 was first fielded in Europe against the Warsaw Pact forces, they figured that the entire A-10 force would be operationally ineffective in a matter of 3 or 4 days.
This is true, but that estimate was greatly revised after better NATO fighters came about. If you can get air supremacy or even a high level of air superiority, the A-10 would make out alright.
The same thing applied to US helicopters, too.
Apparently you cannot penetrate the brain dead Air Force clown posse head that the Cold War is over and you are going to be doing a lot more ground support not much Top Gun for the foreseeable future.