The Zumwalts have a propulsion suitable for future weapon systems (e.g. lasers), they have the necessary electricity generation power which the older design lack.
Their propulsion is not complicated - that is the way modern propulsion systems are built in many navies.
I one point I agree with you: the Zumwalts are based on the same obsession with big guns than the arguments for antique ships like the Iowas. There are people who are thinking that they lack armament because the lack the rounds for their 155 mm guns - as if these would have been their main armament. The main armament are in their Mk 57 VLS - and in future in addition their hypersonics.
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