Not CS myself, but saying
Because it enables hundreds, perhaps thousands of parasitic civil servants to justify their worthless existences and claim their gigantic index linked final salary pensions that WE are all paying for.
is just plain stupid, head up your ar$e stuff.
'They' are also 'we'; their job is to try and enact government policy to the best of their ability, all whilst government policy bends in the wind to the 'will of the people' or their close advisors anyway.
I believe the boats should have followed catapult launch and arrested landing if only to open up interoperability ad accommodate all the other elements that make up a balanced force. The military adisors who set the specification have gone down a rabbit hole, tried to turn round only to find the exit blocked by a fall of detritus. Maybe it is embarrassing for the long trousered brigade to hear 'I told you so' time and again.