Yeah, I think you're right that the 'Battle-' part was their biggest failing and made them misapplied. But the application for them was still extremely limited, especially considering their vast expense. They were pushed into battle line combat in lieu of battleships, which could've been built instead of them. And then true fast battleships, the first of which were launched on the eve of WWI, also more or less guaranteed that that the battlecruisers' days were numbered.
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