Turbo-electric capital ships into the 1940s

How much might US Navy turbo-electric drive improve if retained for 1940s capital ships?

Substantially; it could evolve toward integrated electric propulsion, especially once treaty weight limits ended.

Turbo-electric drive provides separate machinery for generating electricity and turning the propellers. Continued development could make that generating capacity useful for radar and other expanding electrical loads as well as propulsion. One participant raises the weight that such machinery would consume under treaty limits. A programme continuing into the 1940s would eventually operate beyond those limits. Substantial investment would still be needed, but the arrangement could develop toward integrated electric propulsion.