It's better than its replacement.
A sign of the times though. We replace two massive towers with a twisted half empty work of disfunctional art, are unwilling to secure our own borders, and now replace one of the best fighters of all times with an inferior machine.
The Tomcat is a far superior fighting machine to the F-18, and it could've been made even better with the proposed Attack Super Tomcat 21 (ASF-14) variant.