It's too early in the morning to be chuckling this hard.....
Yes, the phoon is not all together and that is a travesty given how long the project has been running, and thus a block 3 superhornet, which is the pinnacle of that aircraft's design (much like the -15E/various recent exports) might well better than the current typhoon.
But some might say it's worth looking at the longer view past the next 2 years....