These articles always appear at the time of defence reviews and always get the same response. Capping at 48. Buying a mix of C and B. Mothballing one carrier. Navalised Typhoon! Navalised Tempest! (Sorry Evalu8ter). It's probably designed to elicit such a response. The Daily Telegraph are at it with EMALS for the carriers to launch shiny new all singing all dancing vapourware drones and future aircraft.
Then again defence procurement in the UK and US is an absolute mess. No-one knows what they want and as soon as costs are realised the reinvention of the wheel starts again with an evaluation of a brand spanking new square wheel with plenty of gold plate, which will morph into something slightly better than the old wheel but at 3 times the cost. Then the cycle repeats. Lessons don't ever seem to be learned, so we jump on reports of such lunacy which often turn out to be the sad truth. If we just stuck to the original plan we'd be far better off as each platform matures.
Navalised Grippen-E anybody? /joke
P.S. Interest payments on the UK debt are now greater than the defence budget.