Would Long Beach-sized Aegis cruisers still be in service?

Would the proposed Long Beach-sized cruisers now face the same retirement problem as the Ticonderoga class?

The oldest ships would still be aging, but a dual-role design and conventional variant could have kept the class in production longer and left some nuclear ships in service.

Any ships built in the original Ticonderoga period would now face age, wear, and obsolete equipment. The larger design has more room for new combat systems and can fill both the Aegis command role and part of the strike-cruiser mission. That broader utility makes continued construction easier to justify. Gas-turbine ships could remain the affordable production version while a smaller number of nuclear vessels served with carrier groups. Some early hulls would probably retire, but a living production line and useful growth margin would leave the class in a better position than the historical Ticonderogas.