More fuel or more destroyers?

Additional bunkerage, with a slightly longer hull if necessary, is proposed as a relatively modest expense beside machinery and weapons already installed. That comparison weakens cost as an explanation for the short range in this critique. Matching other navies' destroyers is offered as a more convincing explanation than designing directly around Japan's distant attrition mission. Limited endurance then increases the number of destroyers needed to sustain attacks while others return for rearmament. Bases able to reload those ships are another requirement.