Admiral-class hulls as fleet carriers

How well would Admiral-class ships have performed if completed as fleet carriers?

He expects them to have been capable fleet carriers and thinks they could have accelerated the British approach to naval strike aviation.

Admiral-class hulls could have made fairly good fleet carriers. Their size would have offered the Royal Navy a strong aviation asset rather than a marginal experimental conversion. Operating them could also have accelerated British thinking about carrier-borne strike. A later follow-up distinguishes these conversions from the next purpose-built carrier programme: Ark Royal would still follow as the next custom-designed fleet carrier. The counterfactual links a powerful conversion with the development of the Fleet Air Arm while leaving room for purpose-built carriers.