Any aircraft that can't meet the very basic design criteria like sustained turn rate, angle of attack, low level speed, and has only now achieved the ability to disperse flares, doesn't sound like it is ready for induction. For me it sounds like it probably has not even reached half-way mark in terms of development, yet the IAF is inducing this into service, is that funny or what?
BTW, 1500 flights is very little when you consider that LCA was only able to go supersonic after nearly 3 years of flying.