When you get down to it, roll in landings are always harder to catch a wire than fly in landings. My hook skip rate in the F-4 was pretty high in cases where gear hit the wire first. Of course, the sharp pitch down the F-4 did on touchdown plus a bit of tendency of the main mounts to rebound off the deck didn't help either.
As I recall, the F-4 hook tip was redesigned from the original. No big deal. I'm surprised that the F-35 folks didn't have a spare in their back pocket of an alternate design.
What they will have to watch with the lower point tip is that wear limits are strictly observed. Too sharp and they will be tearing out strands.