We're in poo. Deep poo.
What the Japanese failed to eliminate in Pearl Harbor was the maintenance and refitting spaces. By failing to do that, they enabled the US to repair ships and return them to the fray (albeit the really serious cases went back to the states).
Since then, our maintenance facilities have suffered, and now we're retiring some serious offensive capability? All that gee whiz stuff is nice, but (as I have repeatedly said), quantity has a quality of its own.
Those lost tubes were for fleet defense and offensive operations. In the days of kamikaze drones (and even kamikazes, back when) the more tubes that can be devoted to fleet defense, the fewer vessels will be lost or damaged. Without the ability to repair, without the ability to defend, we will be in serious trouble in any protracted peer to peer naval conflict. Retirement should be limited to what capabilities have been replaced, hull for hull.
In the meantime, pilots in the USAF are flying grandpa's planes....