If the Pearl Harbor battleships could not be repaired

What if the battleships damaged at Pearl Harbor were beyond repair, and would that hasten the carrier's replacement of the battleship?

Early wartime operations would change little, but later bombardment capacity would shrink and additional new battleship or carrier construction might receive more urgency.

The Standard-type battleships' slow speed and the logistics needed to support them already limited their contribution to the early Pacific campaign. Even lightly damaged ships were largely absent from operations until mid-1943, while heavily rebuilt Nevada and West Virginia went principally into shore bombardment. Their permanent loss would therefore have its greatest operational effect on the bombardment forces needed in 1944 and 1945, as well as removing their eventual appearance at Surigao Strait. Illinois and Kentucky could receive greater construction priority, and completing Alaska more quickly would provide another source of heavy guns. Montana construction might at least begin, although completion is expressly left uncertain. With no prospect of the old battle line returning, carrier development could also gain further momentum.