The Navy is smart.

Specialization is critical to aircraft design. If I was king for a day I would kill the 35, reroll the technology into fourth gen + designs as able and keep the F-22 / B-2 alive with upgrades for day one of major wars with other advanced air powers.

It makes about zero sense to me that we are not getting more out of the F-16 / F-15 / A-10. That was and will be the backbone of American airpower for the foreseeable future.

Stealth / fifth gen is nice but not if you can't afford to fly it or buy them. Right now the pendulum has swung so far in the direction of advanced technology over proficiency and flight hours / number of aircraft that it is ridiculous.