Oh, good Lord, MSOCS, I feel your angst. "Please educate me, then." Really? Did I dare question something about F-35 and its "vertical landings"? Remember, I am NOT a so-called "nay-sayer" so please don't respond to me as if I were.
But I shall explain my point, which was in response to JF. His post was extolling the virtues and all the advantages of coming to the hover, adjusting, moving sideways and plonking on the deck. My point was simply that all that is fine, but it was only a few months ago that extolling the virtues and the necessity to do RVLs instead. Not all the advantages apply equally to both landing modes.
Nothing more than that.