Please allow an interested outsider a view.
Towards the end of my career in Met. I worked to one-stars and with senior officers in various disciplines: Vulcan, Victor, Harrier, Tornado, Eng., Legal, Medical. This was in the 1980s 1990s.
To a man and woman they seemed dedicated and competent.
Judging by what I read in this thread and others, something has gone wrong with the higher direction of the RAF, very sad personally for me, even without a dog in the fight.