Would licensed Mogami or Zara cruisers have helped Germany?

What if Germany had abandoned its own cruiser designs and built Mogami- or Zara-class cruisers under licence?

The ships would have been better in some respects, but neither design clearly suited Germany's North Atlantic and Arctic operating requirements or solved its strategic problem.

Licensed Mogami- or Zara-class cruisers would have given Germany more efficient ships than its historical heavy cruisers. That does not answer what the Kriegsmarine needed them to do. Both parent designs reflected different climates, seas, and fleet systems, and neither was an obvious choice for Arctic or North Atlantic service. The counterfactual repeats the episode's rule that foreign technical quality cannot substitute for national mission fit.