With the F-22's 2D vectored thrust and power, canards are totally worthless.
You are wasting your time, explaining notions to people used to playing pokemon card games.
Some people tend to think that the more features a plane has the awesomeness factor increases.. to put it simply, if we add magically canards and all moving stabs and black paint and DSI to the F-22 then we by definition made it more awesome than before..
the concepts of meeting requirements, answering complex technical questions, fabrication, manufacturing, strict minimum performance, desired maximum performance, contralability throughout the envelope, design trade offs, and blending with used tried and proven methods are nothing but words that geeks with thick glasses use..
the oomph factor is how many features our plane has... some people will never learn that it's not the size of the gun, it is the size of the gun relative to the hand that holds it that makes the difference...
to support some of my points, I claimed a while back, that even and F-117 taking out of mothballs today, it would fly a mission in china and back and the chinese will only find out from watching CNN...
to further support my point (to those who see it) .. I'd say that in a hypothetical confrontation today between a PLAAF equiped with X number of J-20s and a USA force equiped with X number of F-16s .. the USA force would still come on top .. and relatively easily .
and this is not to flame the thread... people need to read between the lines of what the above comment means... to those who understand the complexities of modern warfare.
for further info on why I think so, feel free to also ask Gambit, I am not entirely sure, but I would bet he might have a similar feeling..... might