Some of the comments from Growler community at the NAVAIR Symposium was that they've never heard so much attention being given to EW now that the F-35B and C are in the Fleet.
They said that before, they were always the odd man out, not paid much attention to in training, and kinda left by the wayside by the Fighter/Attack community.
Now EW is getting a lot more attention than it ever was before, since the F-35 brings with it capabilities that leap ahead of dedicated mission and crew-based EW birds.
No point in keeping the EA-6B around at this point.
Will be interesting to see what happens with E/A-18G working with F-35B/C as well.