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you are ignoring both RWR and AWACS presence that would inform a fighter that they are being engaged/at risk of being engaged. the reason you wouldn't sacrifice that authority is to gamble that your opponent will not have any EW/Radar technologies or successes that you do not expect. to sacrifice your ability to maneuver and hoping simply to not get caught as your plane is dead weight if it is is a fools errand. canard designs and those with stabilizers which are closer to the wing such as the YF-23's design are far more likely to retain good flight characteristics while enjoying some of the benefit of reducing advance warning time, however, just stealth is not a one-size-fits-all solution for reducing that warning time. EW plays as important, if not an almost outsized role in combination with such design considerations.

as a tangentially-related aside: i wholly believe at this point the J-36 is not a fighter, and is instead designed to be a drone-tender or F-117-like bomber craft. those treating it as a fighter i believe are misinformed, and using it to inform the ideas of what a sixth-gen fighter will be used for or look like are engaging in the wrong discussions. it seems that the J-36 is there to provide that low-early warning strike package capability you're thinking of, not to engage other fighters or to gain air superiority.