Tourist -
I also have yet to hear from a single operator who doesn't rave about it. Financial/temporal disaster it may well/seems to be, however the users who get to play seem to love it.
I don't know about that. On the last occasion where I heard lots of operators talking about the aircraft, they were up on its information-based capabilities - not "raving" - but the mood was quite cautious about the process of getting those capabilities on the flight line in good order, which given the DOT&E's latest chainsaw attack is understandable. And the "it's not a super A2A machine" view seemed accepted in surprising places (and it was being energetically advertised as such a while back).
And if we're talking about USAF guys in public, nobody can quite unsay this:
http://cdn.warisboring.com/images/F-...s-Guidance.pdf