If you want an airforce that can drop troops into trouble but do little or nothing but watch them die from the edge of threat envelope fine bin the typhoon order and order shed fulls of chinooks etc but when the troops on the ground are in contact and need something bigger than a minigun to support them they need a something with a little bit of punch. Typhoon is being procured to replace the Jaguar as well as the Tonka F3 remember Jaguar.....single seat ground attack aircraft used to live in coltishall used to be wheeled out periodically to drop bombs on people.
That was exactly what the French thought back in 93 or so - RAF were insisting that Eurofighter should be primarily an air-defence swing role aircraft, but the French wanted an aircraft that would be useful in CAS and could also fly off aircraft carriers. Hence they built Rafale instead - which is still a decent fighter in the highly unlikely event that it's air defence capability would be needed - but is also a useful carrier and CAS strike aircraft. It is a shame we didn't listen back then....