Sectional floating dry docks and lost repair capacity

Could compartmentalized floating dry docks have enabled earlier large-scale shipbuilding or repair?

Sectional docks already existed in American service, including docks able to lift capital ships; the reply focuses on how later disposal reduced their usefulness.

American floating dry docks were built in sections that could assemble into a much larger dock. Some complete docks could lift battleships and aircraft carriers. After the war, sections were sold or dispersed as the demand for that capacity declined. The criticism here concerns scrapping those sections piecemeal instead of retaining complete sets. Individual surviving sections consequently did not guarantee that a full-sized dock could be reassembled.