How larger treaty-free carriers would reshape air groups

If carrier tonnage restrictions disappeared and major navies built 27,000-ton carriers earlier, how would naval aviation develop?

Larger carriers would expand air groups and aircraft demand, but the resulting doctrine would evolve through experimentation rather than appearing automatically with the ships.

Removing cumulative carrier-tonnage limits would let the major navies pursue the ships they wanted sooner instead of accepting treaty-driven compromises. Larger hulls would provide space for more aircraft, larger aircraft, and stronger underwater protection, increasing demand for naval aircraft as well as ships. The Royal Navy would probably devote somewhat more displacement to armour and defensive systems, while the United States would favour a somewhat larger air group. These would be two variations on the same large-carrier idea rather than wholly separate concepts. Doctrine would still develop through exercises with the new ships and then change again under wartime pressure, so a larger hull would not produce a mature operating system automatically.