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Even in that specific use case, bombers are an "expeditionary" weapon; best used when you need to "go somewhere" to attack. Chinese need H-6K so that they can fly it for 3,000km, just outside the Air Defence Zone of US CBGs and launch a swarm of AShMs before quickly turning back. Or the Americans need B-52 that can go 10,000km away to Middle East to fire few JSOWs on a Hamas command centre.These bomber are very useful to launch cruise missile. Nowadays this the only use of these bombers.
These are some of cases where it makes sense. Every single adversary of ours is at a, to use the technical term...moot du to beh jaaye distance, there's absolutely no sense for us to have a bomber.
The only exception is that if somehow we manage to come up with an extremely stealthy bomber design like B-2 or B-21. Then we can use that to interdict deep into enemy airspace no matter how good ADS they have and drop bombs on HVTs.