Whether it was a good result depends entirely on ones perspective.
Sure, there are 13 more museum pieces in the world that might otherwise have been toxic landfill. This indeed looks good.
That we have turned 40-odd expensively acquired pieces of useful technology into museum pieces and replaced them with a series of less capable and more expensive aircraft so we can continue to "project power" in the region is perhaps less good.
It's a shame we can't project power with our own technology rather than by just waving the national credit card around.