And your citing of the F-35's "stellar" performance in "every other part of the dogfight regime" is of course completely unsupported by data. As far as most of the world is concerned, it's marketing puffery.
Isn't that interesting. My view is that "the data" indicates the F-35 has stellar performance and the characterizations of "abysmal" performance are "completely unsupported by data." As for "most of the world", may I respectfully inquire why so much of the world is buying the F-35? Do people really believe that nations make such decisions based on "marketing puffery" and not on hard data, including reams of classified data?