Very true, but missing an item or so:
1983 - Aircraft* development begins.
1989-92 - NATO's adversary self-destructs.
1990 - Germany elects government committed to cancel program.
1992-2000 - Partner air forces shrink, also slowing the increase in average airplane age.
1994 - Aircraft first flight.
1997 - German Government talked off the ledge.
1998 - Contract signed for production, and development of production-standard airplane.
2004-20XX - One government or another (usually Germany) drags feet over every stage of the contract.
2007 - RAF takes delivery of first aircraft.
2017 - Aircraft achieves integration of MBDA Meteor Beyond Visual Range air-to-air missile.
This blatantly erroneous tu quoque comparison has been part of the fans' manual since 2010 or so.
Rafale has a parallel story, but in that case the program had to accommodate the different needs of the AdlA, which was left well supplied with newish M2000s at the end of the CW, and the Aeronavale, which urgently needed an F-8 replacement.