Funny you mentioned AGM-88 - just after GW1 I had to explain to a USAF F-4 driver what an ALARM was - he had never heard of it. It happened that he was a F-4G WW driver from the 52TFW!
Neither could he see any use for the loiter mode.
I was convinced for a while he was taking the pi$$ but it gradually dawned on me that the backseater did the clever stuff he just drove.