NaB, ORAC - Indeed that was the idea, based on GW1 experience. And, clearly, it resulted in a smaller airplane than the earlier A/F-X, which was designed to carry all its air-to-ground ordnance (4 x LGBs) internally, and certainly could not have been created in a STOVL variant.
So the USAF and USN were told to live with a two-bomb aircraft (SDB excepted) on the grounds that weapons were now super-precise and they could load the jet wall to wall on "Day 2".
Unfortunately...
What was found in Bosnia was that the Day 1/Day 2 model only worked against a cooperative adversary playing Soviet rules, which assumed that a sufficiently dense and hardened IADS would be a meat grinder for the attacker. With a more flexible and innovative defender, EMCON and mobility meant that defenses could be suppressed but not as easily destroyed.