You're right, with its radar etc. etc. it will be a good aircraft when it comes up to spec, but that doesn't change the fact that we're buying the most expensive and arguably the least capable variant, both to purchase and to fly.
The price, for me, is too high and I think by trying to achieve the very goal of reasonable capability for protecting worldwide interests, we're actually painting ourselves into a corner and achieving the opposite, with far too few assets to do anything at all.
The dutch seem to be with me!
Dutch plans to buy F-35 fighter jets in doubt