Instead of a 5-8 turn speed advantage over ships of the same level, its now half that. 3-5 turn speed over the BB123s. We could have always gone down to the 17,18,19 turnforces of the BB123s...
Oh and dates posted. Makes a big difference.
USN had no ship with the same gun layout of the Sevastopol.
Nor did the RN with the dunk.
Nor KM with the AD.
The PBB still hold:
Early extra support slot(s)
Decently higher turn force over BB123s
Some of the best submergence values in the game.
Plenty of extra displacement to fit crews all the way to 120.
In the end, it doesn't really matter, we can't add too many more sprites at this point anyways without fixing a certain significant bug in the game engine.