What the fuck.
When I suggested angled deck, everyone was like "nooo, don't do that, too advanced, nooo", and people voted for the gun. Then I made the double deck carrier, and people are like "nooo, don't do that, angled deck is better, nooo".
Okay, first of ALL.
If the exhaust isn't angled downward it can't set the deck on fire.
It can if you use a ramp, which will direct exhaust downwards. Also, our jet engines are mounted somewhat low.
Would someone move me to Pattern C, please?
The Z is sacrificing hanger space for a design no one uses any more so it launch twice as fast. Pattern C also launches twice as fast, but doesn't sacrifice hanger space.
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It sacrifices maybe a 1/10th of total hangar space, and even that, not really, as planes can be still stored to the sides of catapult, so you're sacrificing... one, two planes for the launching capability in worst case.
Of course, it would be best if we had both angled deck and second launch deck, but that would probably make it more complex.
Also, it's easier to just prolong the hangar deck and end it in launch space, instead of making an angled deck, which is something we haven't done yet, and won't be done for long time. Two, hell, THREE deck carriers have been.
And if anything, your argument that angled deck is much better because there is one deck for launching and one for retrieval, well, there is one deck for launching, which comes straight from the hangar and doesn't require lifting the planes up to the top deck, and one deck for retrieval. Simple.
Also, angled deck poses a problem - it's angled. It makes the landing plane have to come at angle, which is harder, and is something which was solved in reality by addition of optical landing aid - something we would have to also do, and have no experience in doing.
Also, US Navy at the time operated hangar deck catapults - their problem being is that they were aiming sideways, which made them less useful because they didin't benefit from the carrier sailing into wind. Zheleznogorod does.