You agree then we should just get rid of the Navy surface/air entirely right?
By the end of WW I, it became obvious that horse cavalry, despite over three thousand years of action around the world and a love of horses, was obsolete, had no role or survivability on a modern battlefield. Surface warships in an era of satellite and magnetic resonance surveillance, pin point guidance systems, stealth supersonic missiles and equally stealth and quiet submarines cannot survive against a technologically semi sophisticated opponent despite up to date defensive weaponry. It would be illogical and immoral to send brave young crews into battle on these later day “horses”.
You may have not noticed but once the Iranians became armed with the stealthy Chinese shore to ship missiles that they developed ( yes with a Clinton supplied American designed guidance system) to control the Taiwan Strait, the presence of American ships in the Persian Gulf became untenable.
Modern technology and realities are harsh arbiters of behavior.