What continuous cruiser construction failed to carry forward

What habits from continuous British cruiser construction should the Royal Navy have broken?

It should have reconsidered some treaty-protection assumptions and carried more of the compact Nelson-and-Rodney design logic into later cruisers.

Protection choices under the treaty system were one habit the Royal Navy could have reconsidered. Nelson and Rodney showed how efficiently major features could be concentrated, yet later British cruiser construction did not exploit that approach as fully as it might have. Continuous production created institutional inertia alongside accumulated expertise.