The counterfactual stops around 1925 because distributing the German ships would quickly alter too many political and naval assumptions. The historical scuttling removed a valuable but divisive pool of warships, reducing friction among Britain, France, Italy, the United States, and Japan. An intact fleet would change bargaining, status, and naval planning even though nobody wanted another war over a few old ships in 1919. Its survival creates prolonged diplomatic tension rather than an immediate return to fighting.
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Why the Scapa Flow scuttling eased Allied tensions
An intact High Seas Fleet would complicate the postwar settlement as a diplomatic prize without making another war in 1919 the most likely outcome.