Fisher successfully promoted ships such as dreadnoughts and battlecruisers but failed to build similar support for officer reform. Common entry became a lightning rod for his detractors even though steam propulsion made technical literacy increasingly necessary for command. Opposition combined status prejudice with genuine misunderstanding about allocation, specialization, and promotion. The Admiralty needed to explain the operational case for engineering literacy and the actual career opportunities, both inside the Navy and to the public.
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Poor communication turned reform into a lightning rod
Misunderstanding and status prejudice flourished because the Admiralty failed to explain what common entry would do and why a steam navy needed it.