This topic, which had its promise went down quite rapidly, unfortunately... :)
I understand when you add passion and egos that it can turn like this... however, I get neofightr point of trying to show (while not in retorically best way) that picture is much bigger than what most of us, who are/were not in the loop, will never comprehend fully. It's a fact that, even if you have GBs of scanned manuals and phd, it will never tell you how it is to fly the given jet if you did not do it for real.
Anyways... I think F35 will be a very capable jet in the end, simply because its design milestone is beyond point of no return and thus there will be unlimited money pured into it untill it performs.
I also share view, that autonomous drones are the future. It is already amazing what anyone can build and program with off the shelf products in his free time hacking with some opensource drone. Drone swarm tests, etc. we have seen videos of military testings, are clear indication where is the focus in next decades.
p.s. one's privacy should be respected. There are crazy people out there. If someone doesn't believe who one is, it's his own problem.