Which carrier generation did the thought experiment mean?

Did the 30,000-ton British carrier thought experiment mean the Audacious class?

No. It lies around Implacable and Indefatigable, perhaps with some Indomitable influence; Audacious was a later generation.

A viewer asks whether the 30,000-ton carrier thought experiment points to the Audacious class. The answer places Audacious in the next generation and centers the example on Implacable and Indefatigable, with possible influence from Indomitable. The exact result would depend on the institutional power of different advocates and who occupied the relevant posts. This narrows a counterfactual design lineage without claiming that the Royal Navy had settled a single historical design.