The name of the game surely hasn't changed since Adolf Galland made his remarks.
If you see first, you can shoot first.
Today that requires that you have armament that can reach the opponent at the moment of first sight.
In the past it was said that the F-22 could detect a Typhoon far earlier and had missiles with greater range.
I assume the F-35 would have had similar capability.
Surely the ability to see first and reach the target trumps in close dogfighting which is extremely rare. It has been said on this thread that if you allow yourself to get into a gunfight, you weren't doing your job in the first place.
So one wonders about the usefulness of stealth - is it worth the cost? Surely more advanced sensors and air-to-air missiles can carry the day? After all, the object of the exercise hasn't changed since WW I it isn't to engage in heroic one-to-one combat, it is to prevent enemy aircraft from attacking ones own ground assets. If the strike aircraft can detect at greater range and fire at greater range, it doesn't need to be a first class dogfighter.