Malta-class construction pauses for an angled-deck redesign

Could the Malta class have been completed with an angled flight deck?

In the proposed counterfactual, construction pauses while the class is redesigned around an angled deck.

The proposed Malta-class path pauses construction while the design is revised around an angled flight deck. That would produce a purpose-built postwar carrier instead of a straight-deck ship requiring a later conversion. The idea also helps explain why completing a large new carrier could have offered more long-term value than repeatedly rebuilding an elderly conversion. It remains a design counterfactual because the class was cancelled before any ship reached service.