The F35 is a Jaguar, not a Ferrari.

I'm not a plane-guy, and definitely not a military plane-guy. But I am a car guy. I'm old enough to remember when the F35 was being sold. It was supposed to be like a VW Golf (Rabbit in the US). You've got the 4 door basic model, the 2 door GTI and a wagon variant.

What we got was a 90s Jaguar XJ. Massively overpriced and overcomplicated. IIRC they had 183 parts for the hood (bonnet). Sure it looks pretty sitting in the driveway, but don't look under the car at the fluids leaking. 90s XJs also came in variants, but no matter which variant you had, you better be ready to inject $1000 every six months for various repairs or you'll spend even more after it strands you on that weekend trip to whereever.

Like the F35, any guy who convinced his wife that the Jag was gonna be a daily driver needed a major historical revision ("retcon" in the film industry) to make the reality of his current super expensive boondoggle match what he told her when he bought it. The F35 is a Jag, not a Ferrari.