Robert Mcnamara made a similar point about Concorde - but that wasn't cancelled. A vast amount of talent and capital was effectively lost on it. The point that Mcnamara didn't ever make though was that a great deal of Concorde's troubles can be pinned on the oil crisis.
There is a lot of randomness and counter factuals to be considered in these stories.
Given how much the knowledge from making the Concorde later made it into Airbus and their planes, I don't know that the talent and capital was "effectively lost".
I was under the impression that the vast bulk of the engineering effort for Concorde was targetted on making it a viable supersonic aircraft. Airbus has never built a supersonic aircraft...
There is a lot of randomness and counter factuals to be considered in these stories.