You can resurface it. We did twice in eight and a half months. We had over 12000 traps during that time in the work up to the 91 war and the two months after. But it takes a few days to do that, you have have to bead blast the deck, then apply the new non-skid and let it dry. Not like just grabbing a paint brush and paint can.
The first time we resurfaced was following an E2 skidding into a tomcat after landing and just taxiing to spot. Started sliding with locked brakes and didn’t stop until after the prop took the nose and radar off the the F-14 while the alert crew was sitting in it. You get busy prepping for war, not enough time for maintenance, and things sometimes just happen.
A lady pilot earlier this year did this:
https://www.the-sun.com/news/4543260/us-navy-f35-jet-south-china-sea/
Think this whole military is equipped to do anything other than surrender?
Wow, that’ll give you some pucker watching a big aircraft with spinning props sliding toward you and wanging off your nose and radar.