Saratoga and Lexington wrote the book on carrier warfare during pre-war US Navy exercises. It's actually rather easy to see them as the "senpais" of the American carrier arm.
Saratoga ended as nuclear test fodder Enterprise ended as scrap metal.
Getting scrapped isn't the worst thing that could happen to a warship. There's something kind of sad about it, but there's something good about taking the tools of war and making into something more... constructive. It's good to beat swords into plowshares.
It's a fine thing to try and preserve a ship, but it's also difficult and expensive. It's a very rare fate for any ship.
Either way is better than sinking in battle, going down with God only knows how many of their crew and introducing tons of toxic fuel oil and lead paint to the ocean.
Logically, I get why Operation Crossroads is seen as tragic for shipgirls, but I can't empathise with the view at all for some reason. The only truly sad thing there was the test livestock and the chased out island natives.
Also, I thought the crews of Enty and Sara didn't get along after Sara's string of bad luck relegating her to dockyard idol duty?