Re: A is actually not a bad piece of kit
"This makes block A is the only Gen-5 fighter..."
You could have just stopped there. Other than the F-22 (obviously also American), there are no other Gen-5 fighters. The PAK FA and J-20 are far from operational and have capabilities even more questionable than the F-35, and other than a couple of countries that claim to be developing them (India and Turkey specifically, while Japan has an experimental platform for testing) those are the only candidates that exist. The F-35 deserves plenty of criticism on its own merits, but its pointless to try to compare its features and capabilities to other Gen-5 fighters when no other country actually has one.