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Except it didn't. Hence all of the drama for the last 15 years and why ultimately the CNO said, "Take it or leave it..." regarding the current construct.
The more of a graybeard I become, the more I realize SOCOM is sorta like the dude in the squadron that always bums a dip from other people. As soon as he has to buy his own can, he’s all of a sudden ‘trying to quit’
That's like saying we should put LRASM on LCS. Not a bad idea if we had 10,000 LRASMs, but we don't. Putting them on an independent, defenseless FRU could end up being a waste of a pretty great weapon.