The Yamato class battleships weren’t much of a success.
Best thing the Japanese could have done with them is scuttle in shallow water at a strategic location and use as fixed battery.
Might still have been destroyed, but would not have sank.
True.
When the Yamato was conceived there was a logic for it. At the time no one suspected that battleships would become obsolete overnight. In their favor the Japanese weren’t stupid enough to waste resources on the number of boondoggles the Nazis funded. They were just stupid enough to bomb Pearl Harbor.