Was there anything the Yorktown class did better than the Midway class?
Short answerYes. Yorktown offered better practical spaces for machinery work and aircraft maintenance, aiding sustained operations.
NotesMidway represents the peak of American wartime carrier development in overall size and capability. Bigger was not better in every operational detail. Yorktown's internal arrangements gave maintainers more practical access to machinery and aircraft work spaces. The answer uses sustained maintenance to show how an older design can outperform a larger successor in a specific function.