Future escort carriers may carry unmanned aviation

What made the Ruler class useful, and could escort carriers return?

He likes them and thinks escort carriers could return in a future non-nuclear war, probably with mostly unmanned aircraft to expand aviation capacity.

Escort carriers are often underrated because they are austere. Their logic could return if a future war required a navy to expand aviation capacity faster than it could build fleet carriers. A modern version would probably carry a large unmanned air component rather than repeat a Second World War air group. British modifications also show that escort carriers were not all inherently expendable or as fragile as familiar dismissive labels suggest.