A continuous US scout-cruiser building program before 1920

How would building two US scout light cruisers every year from 1900 to 1920 change cruiser development?

It would give the US Navy a much larger scout-cruiser force and a wider design lineage, though some period proposals combined high speed and heavy guns with very low freeboard.

Building two scout cruisers annually from 1900 to 1920 would give the US Navy many more actual cruisers and a wider range of designs. The game-design aside concerns World of Warships researchers looking for historical studies that could fill gaps in a ship progression. Some real paper proposals combined two single 8-inch guns, speed above 30 knots, and very low freeboard. Those features provoke concern about violent motion and structural weakness at sea. More designs would create more choices, but their seakeeping would still need careful scrutiny.