Germany, Italy, and Japan face limits imposed by their infrastructure and available funding. They cannot simply answer every earlier British completion with another ship. The Allies have greater industrial depth and more freedom to move expenditure between requirements. Continuing the British program therefore produces operational choices that the Axis cannot readily match.
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Allied industrial capacity permits more strategic choices
Greater industrial and financial depth gives the Allies more freedom to redirect spending in the counterfactual.