Which is another area where F-35 is lacking: range. Without external fuel tanks it can't fight in the Pacific.
If only we had large floating aircraft bases and the plane also had versions that supported VTOL for even more expansive capabilities at sea.
If you're going to base your availability of air power, which is the main determinant of success given the American military doctrine, on having a secure and available carrier at all times, you may be putting yourself in a bind when anti-ship weapons start proliferating and you become forced to increase distance between those defenses and your carriers.
It also puts a hell of a single point of failure.
The best thing that could be done would be to have enough range to be able to fly out from a carrier that's relatively safe from antiship missiles. But that may well become impossible anyways as antiship missile evolve.