Dengue Dude
While you are portraying yourself as the world's greatest wind-up artist and the rest of us are thinking you are a bitter old f@rt, just consider the facts...
The C130J arrived in 1999 directly onto a squadron with the RAF as the lead customer; no OEU, no clearances, no experience on type, no OCU. Just a few C130K crews who had done a Lockheed Martin factory course on a raw airframe with basic software, which amounted to not much more than medium-level flying A to B and LM telling them how great the aircraft that they were selling us was. Compare that, at the time with the K and its 25 years of operational experience, tac clearances and more manuals than the British Library.
Imagine my surprise when a few individuals - remember no Nav or Flt Eng on this new-fangled aircraft - scoffed at the lack of ability of this raw airframe. Now fast forward 10 years and see what the aircraft can do. Whether you like it or not, it has a proven track record since 2003 and is the airframe of choice by the Army in theatre. Please go and Google some random, irrelevant 5 year old reports by another nation or recall your (alleged) conversation with someone 10 years ago who thought it may not be any good... but better still listen or talk to current operators or customers. You may learn something...