That's quite possible.  It was definitely aimed at a wide audience rather than a geeky one.  Even my wife found it really interesting despite not having done a couple of years at sea which made it doubly interesting for me.  (And despite having to put up with multiple "oh, we had do that" for example when the wind was too strong to load stores with the cranes and they had to form human chains to stow containers worth of gear broken down into manageable sizes.
 

I believe she's designed to weigh more as her (50 year I think it was) lifespan goes on and more stuff gets put in.  (I presume that doesn't mean the car boot "junk" of one of the NCOs who seemed to have filled his cabin before they'd even sailed for the first time.)
 

Yes, I think I said that.  The show said that would at least another 500.  The wikipedia article suggests it could even be double that.
 

I thought that at first, although you do get used to it and I kind of like it now as representing something new and differentiating her, as well as knowing that it gives some redundancy.  Carriers have always been asymetric in that way, so it's just what we're familiar with I would dare to suggest.