Then obviously you've never witnessed a Russian SU-35 perform a Pugachev's Cobra maneuver.
I have, along with a number of other military vets at a private airshow in Europe, and let me say the emotion completely overwhelmed us and broke us. That pilot had "brought the venom".
Their engines have a lifespan measured around 1/10 that of Western engines. As well, the supercruise capabilities are, at most, a novelty for them. The SU35 (and the F22, F35, Eurofighter Typhoon) perform the "Cobra" and "Falling Leaf" maneuvers mainly through raw thrust and extremely capable flight controls using advanced fly-by-wire algorithms. It has nothing to do with range, ANMPP, efficiency, or maintainability.