Why Hood did not overturn the treaty balance

Did allowing Britain to keep HMS Hood undermine the United States' treaty advantage?

Not in the treaty arithmetic, but it exposed different British and American understandings of battlecruisers and economic warfare.

A viewer suggests that allowing Britain to retain HMS Hood undercut the American treaty advantage. The United States had insisted on counting battleships and battlecruisers together as one capital-ship category. The interpretation offered here is that American doctrine did not fully understand the battlecruiser's distinct purpose and reflected a narrowed reading of Alfred Thayer Mahan. Britain used economic warfare to draw an enemy battle line into action, whereas American thinking treated economic warfare as something to pursue after defeating that line.