>expensive
>complex
>huge logistical requirements
>requires a secure base
>requires ground forces to guard them
>requires an army of highly-trained specialists to keep them in the air
>low availability rate
>doesn't like adverse weather, dust, sand
>can't be deployed in terrain deemed too dangerous
>can't survive in contested airspace
>barefoot savages with Soviet-era AA guns can bring them down
>doesn't do anything swarms of cheap drones can't do for 10% the cost

So what's the point of these things now? Yeah, I know, it is possible to imagine a scenario in which they are useful - such as Saddam Hussein obligingly lining up his tanks in a flat, empty desert to be used as target practise. But that dream scenario will not happen again. What is their use case now?