I've had the same experience. Between the haters who can't find anything right with the F-35 and the fans who worship at its feet it's very hard to have an honest discussion.ORIGINAL: navyrecognition
I personally find the F-35 defenders to be as tedious as the F-35 detractors on several military discussion boards (or blogs...)
My own suspicion is that once the bugs are worked out it's going to be a great "strike fighter", just like they promised it would be, but it's unreasonable to expect it to be all things to all people.