I could grab a ton of Lockheed Martin sales propaganda and drop it in as a "rebuttal" but that's obviously a waste of time. STOL is super useful if you need it

I could grab a ton of Lockheed Martin sales propaganda and drop it in as a "rebuttal" but that's obviously a waste of time. STOL is super useful if you need it but irrelevant if you have long runways, and since the F-35B wasn't in the running we can assume Finland isn't putting a ton of weight on that. The Gripen's software is mature in the same way Windows 98 is, maybe it's a joy to work with I wouldn't know and if you knew you wouldn't be able to say. But the real issue is RCS, that information is super classified. You can throw the geometry into a simulator and guess at material properties but you will never have enough information to actually say one stealth fighter is more stealthy than another. As for the ownership question, why does it matter to Finland that have complete control over their aircraft? Why do they need to prevent flight data from being set back to the US? Most importantly, why do they need to be able to independently operate the aircraft? It's only purpose is to fight Russians, and now that they're joining NATO they would be fighting Russians alongside the US.