I'm not really surprised by many of these postings. People's thinking is typically conditioned by their environment but try and step back.
Warfare could be said to be somewhat competitive
what sane person would enter any competitive arrangement with equipment that is 20 plus years old and expect to win? Things are like that because of the total dysfunctionality of MOD procurement.
When the MOD add in 'commercial' specialists they are not people who have delivered effective procurement programs, they are 'people like us' in other words civil servants or military personnel with inadequate training and no experience - unsurprisingly the budget is the first victim and delivery the second.
Anyone with half an eye on history could cite any number of examples where old equipment completely failed against a comparable opponent. For the sake of all concerned we had better hope that conflicts remain very asymmetrical, because otherwise we will get seriously embarrassed.