Go ahead and so design/treat all the drones thusly then and see what that does to cost effectiveness.  Of course cost effectiveness doesn't matter when it's my tax dollars paying the bill, but 'nothing lasts forever.'

Speaking of fleet protection, I wonder what the board of directors of Starlink or whatever is going to do when their constellations are picked off or hoovered up as a result of supplying military class services to hostile powers during times of conflict.  They are a private company who can censor 'till the cows come home irrespective of quaint constitutional notions of freedom of speech and that sort of thing.  Sometimes international trade agreements and such go through a 'rocky patch'.