Perhaps, but getting your take on why would be eminently more valuable, and infinitely less puerile.
For example, Long range stealthy drones armed with either missiles or bombs could make an attack on a carrier more interesting.
Most missiles, once you understand how they operate, can be countered somehow.
Drones may be to naval warfare what tanks were to ground warfare. More specifically, you can produce a large number of more inexpensive drones or a smaller number of more expensive and sophisticated drones.
No matter what, your risk to the ‘meat in the seat’ decreases. The need for skills behind a stick doesn’t go away either.
It’s an interesting question. Can you make a smaller naval craft dedicated to drone-based combat that would be smaller, have fewer crew, be better armed, and ultimately project power and protect national interests better than a carrier can?
Personally, that makes the effort and cash the Chinese may be wasting on a carrier more satisfying to watch.
If we don’t have a dedicated ‘drone carrier’, or even a modified helicopter carrier, on the drawing board, then we are potentially guilty of fighting the last war.
Stalin is quoted that "Quantity has a quality all its own". In some situations that may be true. I had some Air Force guy tell me that our aircraft can handle 10 enemy aircraft at one time. When I asked him what happens when nos. 11-15 show up I got a deer in the headlights reaction.