"it doesn't really do anything that other aircraft in or planned for DCS don't already do."
Probably the single most closed minded statement in all of the threads pertaining to aircraft on a wish list. If that's the case then why bother even developing more A/C? Then you followed it up by stating which aircraft you would rather have....but the Hornet can do what the F-16 can, making it just silly that you weighed in at all here. Before the purists come at me with torches and pitchforks what I mean is both can SEAD, both can ACM, both can put iron on target. Same same, yes?
By your measure ED should have just started out with a piece of early 2000's jet tech and called it good. No Mustang, Spitfire, no need for a Hawg.
The fact is all of us have our favorites. Some of us like the challenge of anything that isn't a mouse click away from wiping out an entire column.
~Rob