David Axe writes for the left-wing defense blog Medium (aka War is Boring). You can count on him to accentuate all the misleading half-truths available about any new and expensive weapon system. For a more complete picture of the teething problems associated with new planes, have a gander at this
discussion. Re this
discussion, the capabilities tacked on to the F-35 over its long development cycle are nothing short of revolutionary. The reason they keep on tacking these things on is because there's no reason (apart from cost) not to. If war breaks out with a peer or near-peer adversary, this is all we'll have in the hopper. Might as well get the best system we can gin up right up to the point of actual conflict.
"You can count on him to accentuate all the misleading half-truths available about any new and expensive weapon system."This is exactly right on. The left is really pushing hard against any kind of weapons systems and the F-35 is going to end up being fine for the job. We're looking forward to getting a wing of them here at Hill AFB in the next few years. This hand wringing seems to happen for pretty much every weapons system that comes online anymore. As stated above, the F-35s are designed to work in tandem with the F-22s and realistically, what air to air threats are they going to face in the next decade or so?