It’s not something they’re evolved to deal with? Seems as if evolutionary pressure for the past, what, 4000 years of shipbuilding would have weeded out the dummies by now.
It’s just whale ego, they’re not getting out of the way because they think they don’t have to, like jaywalking ghettopotomi.
They are like bicyclists on the road in Boulder, CO.
It’s only been a couple of hundred years ships were more dangerous to whales than the other way around. And whales live a long time, not many generations. Evolution is a slow process, at least for species that breed slow.