F22 mainly serves as only ‘strategic deterrence’ for US
. It is an old stealth aircraft but it lacks many capabilities which a true fighter requires, like F15SE. F22 can work as a stealth fighter for special operations only but the time it will get caught by a 4++ gen, it can’t either fight or turn. It is certainly not as good as F15SE, Rafale, EFT, SU35/ SU30MKI for either air superiority or for multi role operations. It can't do dog fight with any of the current 4++ aircraft, but F22 first need to be in the position that it can’t be traced by a 4th gen aircraft and then it would shoot that 4th gen aircraft
US’s engineers are facing similar problems with their new 5th gen F35/ JSF which also has true stealth features but lack ‘competent’ capabilities in a2a and a2g operations both, similar to their old 5th gen F22. So, it is wise to have F22 close to 150 to 200 in number, no more than that, and then US would have 1000s of 4th gen like F15SE, F16s, SM etc, as they do. And at the same time they are trying to improve F35 to an ‘acceptable’ level. F22 can serve for special operations only where true stealth features will be the key but if you want to talk about a complete aircraft, then F15SE is their among the best aircraft right now
SA is a winner with F15SE while Israel would be a clear loser if they will rely only on F35