"Tough. We are getting them. The time to whine about it is over and the time to make them the best ships we can is here. "
No, they are not "here", they are not complete, there are no aircraft. Who knows what the shakedown trials will throw up...
In operational sense they are compromised by a number of factors:- ergo the choice of both aircraft launching and recovery systems, aircraft selected [both ship and aircraft from "same" manufacturing base!!!] lack of high altitude AEW cover, paltry self defence capability.
Do not consider operating another nations aircraft on-board as satisfactory, it's a disgrace.
We are an island nation, one that does not have the capability to monitor and defend it's coastline. The cost of this project, to the fleet, both surface and sub surface, in terms of numbers and capability is also a disgrace.
These ships are the product of both political and service hubris.