There are a thousand scenarios where this may not be the case. WVR combat is as necessary as BVR. This thing needs a redesignation to A-35 tbh.
Agreed. But compromises in air-to air performance must be made. Do the designers compromise the BVR or the WVR? If the platform is primarily intended for the air-to-ground role, yet more compromises need to be made. Do the designers compromise air-to-ground capability (as the F-22 did), or do they compromise some aspect of air-to-air to keep the air-to-ground optimized?
On F-35 the decision was to compromise air-to-air in favor of air-to-ground. That being said, which air-to-air regime should they compromise, BVR or WVR? The decision was to compromise the least probable air-to-air regime, which was WVR.
As for the redesignation to A-35, as long as USAF controls the program, that will never happen. USAF has a long and proud history of avoiding the "A" designation. At best it would become F/A-35. For a short while the F-22 was F/A-22, so there is a small bit of history there.