Realistic target to dive airplanes into....
You think the kamikaze pilots would have been more effective with more than “one” diving attack to learn from?
Sure, the kamikaze pilots were (almost always) combat pilots (not one-flight rookies) but they had never been dive bombers before.
Kamikaze planes were nearly entirely a waste of resources, even though they did damage and killed US servicepeole; the kamikaze boats were one big fiasco. It’s amazing what people can talk themselves into, right up through a hierarchy, even when the data shows they’re dead wrong. :’) During the Battle of Okinawa, the nearly complete failure of kamikaze attacks was ignored by “noble” suicide-seeking residue from the premodern traditions.