The last ‘little crappy ship’: What’s the future for the US Navy’s troubled LCS?

The Navy just commissioned the last littoral combat ship, USS Cleveland, in its namesake city on Lake Erie — closing out a 35-ship run.
The LCS program has been controversial: costly (estimates from $60B up to $100B), plagued by mechanical problems, and derisively nicknamed “little crappy ships.”
The Navy says it will keep LCS for low-end missions while building new, larger frigates to replace them in the coming years — though analysts doubt their combat value.