There's a big difference between seeing the report in hindsight and being in that aircraft at that given time, having lost your HUD and electronics a couple tim

There's a big difference between seeing the report in hindsight and being in that aircraft at that given time, having lost your HUD and electronics a couple times already, not ejected and carrying on for a while before deciding its probably too risky to continue operating the aicraft. How would that pilot know for certain the aircraft was still flyable? That it technically was at that moment is absolutely not the point, and is only known retrospectively after analysis. I unfortunately don't have anything to confirm that, but I wouldn't be surprised that the fact that it was an F35 didn't help that man's case, as in losing a cheaper piece of equipment would have been less impactful.