I think you are missing my point.... without the enablers for a true strategic capability, we are left with a very expensive littoral platform.
It may be unpalatable given where we are with the QE class procurement, but the rhetoric surrounding the QE’s arrival is overplaying the capability somewhat.
The US navy obviously don’t feel that the (cheaper) alternative to providing a strategic carrier capability is to load up support vessels with spares - the just in time reverse supply chain doesn’t support this.
To simply say the debate ‘is not worth continuing’ reminds me of the Blackadder quote
‘'If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through”.
With that type of attitude, it is hardly surprising the EP is as overheated as it is. Again.