More Scharnhorsts instead of two Bismarcks

Would Germany have been better off with five or six Scharnhorst-class ships rather than two Bismarcks?

The larger Scharnhorst force would certainly have had a major effect on the Royal Navy, but the exchange does not give a definitive verdict.

A viewer proposes replacing the two Bismarck-class battleships with five or six Scharnhorst-class ships. The reply supports one limited conclusion: the larger force would have had a major effect on the Royal Navy. Cost, construction feasibility, and whether this would definitely have been the better strategy remain unevaluated. The watch point remains an open force-structure counterfactual rather than a settled verdict.