Fleet ambition ends where yards, money, and specialist labour run out

Did the Italian Navy accept compromises relative to what it wanted?

Yes; every navy must reconcile its desired force with the yards, funding, support facilities, and skilled labour it can actually sustain.

The Italian Navy accepted compromises because its desired ships had to fit available funding and infrastructure. The same test applies to modern American nuclear battleship proposals: a capable design still needs a yard that can build it and a reactor enterprise that can support it. Using carrier facilities creates schedule and workforce competition even when some physical capacity exists. Nuclear-qualified labour and security requirements make the supporting industrial base especially expensive.