Learning from history is an accurate way to predict the future.
In the social domain, this is called credibility;
in mathematics, it is called mathematical induction.
From getting to know someone to falling in love and getting married—you're essentially doing the same thing—judging whether she's right for you by analyzing her past.
This is a basic means of understanding the world. A person who deceived yesterday does not become a saint today.
Denying experience and history runs counter to the fundamental method of objectively understanding the world.
Given the very poor track record of U.S.-made weapons over the past 100 years of aviation history,
it is possible to anticipate the degree of underperformance in their next new product. The F-22 lags significantly behind the Su-57 in every observable respect. There are objective differences in quality between things, and it is not a matter of subjective scoring. There is no need even to list comparisons, because the F-22 is itself a product of the same era, similar to the Su-37 or MiG-1.44/1.46. Furthermore, the F-35 lacked an initial design objective for "multi-role capability" — which is why it turned out so unfortunate — whereas the PAK-FA was the first fifth-generation aircraft to incorporate "multi-role" or a similar description.
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By the way, since you mentioned a table, I once made one may yearS ago, but it was in Chinese. I can machine-translate it and post it.
In the official design guidance documents, one can find that the F-22 prioritized stealth first, maneuverability second, and supercruise third, whereas the Russians placed maneuverability first, supercruise second, and stealth only third. In other respects, the F-22, at the very least, failed to achieve its stated goal of matching the F-15's payload, and the F-35 failed to meet its affordability target,
while the Su-57 developed entirely in accordance with its intended goals — featuring multiple L-band radars that provide a situational awareness capability unmatched by other aircraft, the development of the Su-57D corresponding to item 6, and a superb internal weapons bay capability that delivers powerful air-to-air and air-to-ground strike capabilities also unmatched by other aircraft.
