Could fleet-age limits replace the treaty construction holiday?

Would an average fleet-age limit have worked better than the Washington treaty's construction holiday?

It might have: gradual replacement could spread costs, sustain shipbuilding, reduce resentment, and let the Royal Navy replace the R class while retaining the Queen Elizabeths.

The proposed alternative would regulate a fleet's average age instead of imposing a long capital-ship construction holiday. Gradual replacement might have been more politically acceptable because every signatory would continue receiving some new ships rather than watching design and shipbuilding capacity sit idle. For the Royal Navy, that could have meant replacing the R-class battleships while retaining the more useful Queen Elizabeth class for longer. It also would have spread expenditure over time, though the answer remains a counterfactual rather than a claim that agreement would have been easy.