No they weren't, they were drinking from the firehose for R&D
A missile sells for like a million dollars and the profit margins aren't going to change much. R&D can cost any amount
So they've been playing with lasers and self guided bullets instead of building a stockpile of tried and true munitions
Surprisingly, the people who have that issues with it aren't the ones who contact to it emotionally, it's the people who offload their decision making to AI
It's more like a codependence spiral than anything else