Cuniberti's ideal battleship and the all-big-gun idea

What is the assessment of Cuniberti's ideal battleship?

It was an influential synthesis that made Cuniberti a theoretical father of the all-big-gun battleship, while retaining enough contemporary assumptions to appear credible.

Cuniberti combined several emerging ideas into a recognizable all-big-gun battleship proposal. Its retained features from the preceding era prompt disagreement over whether he hesitated to commit fully to the new direction. An alternative interpretation is that the design stayed close enough to contemporary practice to remain credible while moving far enough ahead to establish a new concept. That synthesis earns Cuniberti the description of a theoretical father of the dreadnought. Fisher's contribution was to push an all-big-gun ship into reality.