Outgunned (14"--360mm/45 cal guns) and outdistanced by later German 15" (38cm SK C/34) and American 16" (460mm/50cal Mark 7) designs.
Lovely lines, though.
Except that there weren't many ship to ship encounters among battleships in WWII. Aircraft carriers made it possible to attack battleships from hundreds of miles while putting orders of magnitude fewer lives at risk. The Japanese battleship Yamato had 18" guns that could out range the Iowa class, but that was irrelevant. It was sunk by carrier based naval planes. The main use for battleships in WWII was shore bombardment for amphibious operations. The triple expansion steam engines on the Texas were obsolete even when it was built, and made it too slow to keep up with carriers. Once WWII was over, there really wasn't any need to keep such an obsolete ship.
And the Bismark was fatally wounded by carrier based RAF Swordfish biplanes, and the carriers were well out of range of Bismark's guns.
Texas, her sister New York and the slightly older Arkansas were slated to be decommissioned prior to WWII, with the Washington and South Dakota ships being built. They were retained as convoy escorts and shore bombardment platforms, and were not even considered to be part of the US fleet’s battle line.
The slightly newer Oklahoma wasn’t rebuilt after turning turtle at Pearl Harbor specifically because her tripple expansion engines severely limited her operational capability. The three old “coal burners” were retained because they were still operational and somewhat useful.