PhilipG, if you're concerned as to whether LM are 'doing their jobs' as the design authority, fear not; they are and more thoroughly than you seem to imply. Indeed, when you're running the world's biggest fighter program as the Design Authority, and when every inch of column news is scrutinised to the nanometre by (literally) everyone, you don't simply just 'sit on your a**' with these things. You also don't go running around like a headless chicken either.
Sure we can talk about this stuff in a sandbox forum, but the only people who are really concerned here are the ones who fix these problems to keep things at a tolerably safe level for those who operate the jet.