Me too, although I'm not holding my breath.
The LHD programme is relatively cheap (at the minute) because it has been done using a relatively sane procurement method, based on off the shelf design. Although one could not do that for CVF, a far more practical (and speedy) approach could have been taken to the procurement of that ship with a consequent impact on cost.
Half the problem is the perception that "behemoths" are inherently expensive and are therefore expected to experience significant cost-escalation. Large ships (even warships) are only expensive if those procuring them do not have a good grasp of what they should be paying. In UK MOD that really does not exist and many of the problems / poor perception of CVF stem from the failure to update the EP provision for the ship when the original 40000 te concept designs (which were costed), turned into the 55000-60000 te ships designed against a realistic Flypro (which were not).