If the evolutionists are right, big brains and advanced processing, resulting in better, faster solutions, beats speed, agility, brawn, size and strength all the way to the top of the food chain!
As such, I can see how the planners came up with the F-35 way back when they were trying to predict the future it would fight in, because the F-35 is, at its core, half geek and half motor head, but with a little bit of fashion sense.
From what I've read, the F-35 is designed to be the biggest, baddest brain in the ring, with the biggest, baddest, most radically powerful engine they could possibly think up, tucked tightly wrapped inside a somewhat sexy, though not svelte body that has a "beauty in the eye of the beholder" quality I think will be quite infectious once the F-35 is out and about strutting its stuff.
Oh yeah, it's obvious. Debutante or not, I can see she's a very bad girl and I'd like to meet her!
I think I'm a bit too old for her, though... *sigh*
Nah. F-35 is intended to be the lower end, multipurpose, McNamara designed does everything at a lower price cousin to the high-end and expensive F-22. F-22 was intended to be the control ship for the lower end fighters - acting a local AEW when needed.