I suppose you’re one of those people who thinks that satellites can do everything.
No, not at all. Satellites have their place, as do other collection methods.
The point I was making is that retiring systems does not mean there is a plan for a replacement, and that USAF may be reducing its involvement in airborne ISR. In fact, it has a long history of not wanting to be in that business, but let's look at the recent history.
USAF wanted to get rid of the U-2 as the RQ-4 became operational. As it turned out, the RQ-4 could not replicate the capabilities of the U-2 and did not offer the substantial reductions in costs the USAF hoped for. So they ended up keeping both, though at various points in the last 20 years they have tried to get rid of one, the other, or both.
USAF is getting rid of the JSTARS platform. It's intended replacement is the Block 40 RQ-4 with MR-RTIP. USAF has already retired the other RQ-4 versions and is down to less than a dozen Block 40. They are now trying to get rid of those. There is no JSTARS replacement if that happens. Space Force is looking at a classified space system and ways to use civilian space assets to replace JSTARS, but at best those solutions would not be available for 5 years or more.
USAF has done this many times in the past - retire an ISR collection system with no replacement. At the end of the day ISR isn't something USAF as an institution wants to do.
If there is a super secret stealth drone that is going to replace all of these retiring systems it must be very impressive - performing all of these different missions in a single survivable airframe would be very difficult and expensive. Having enough of them to maintain orbits over several place would be very expensive as well.
There is already a penetrating ISR platform, the RQ-170, and they can't get enough flight hours out of the fleet to keep their pilots proficient. A new super-drone would not make a lot of sense. Again, it does seem like USAF is just getting out of ISR, again.