Would 16-inch guns have changed Hood's treaty position?

How would a Hood armed with eight 16-inch guns have affected the treaty system?

It might have made Hood more politically difficult to preserve and increased pressure for the United States to complete Lexington as a battlecruiser, with knock-on effects for British conversions.

The move from 15-inch to 16-inch guns would matter without transforming Hood by itself. A larger-gunned, 45,000-ton Hood might have been harder to accommodate politically at Washington. That could have sharpened American demands to finish Lexington as a battlecruiser and altered British choices about equivalent conversions.