Why few navies matched Britain's adaptable cruiser surplus

Did other navies scrap cruisers as adaptable as the British 1910 Town class?

Not really; Britain was unusual because it possessed enough cruisers for some relatively modern, adaptable hulls to become surplus.

The United States had few cruisers, Germany's were not especially new, France's were poor, and Italy's and Japan's presented different limitations. Britain alone combined useful hulls with a very large cruiser inventory. That abundance made the Town-class disposal decision possible, even though the same ships might have supported worthwhile conversions.