Hello from the midwest

I am a retired Army Colonel who never lost his passion for ships.  Strange I know, but if you saw how well I swim you would understand immediately.  I have been building models since 1955 and after a fairly long break I am looking to return to the hobby.  One thing I noticed was that the model manufacturers are great at churning out endless versions of older ships, planes and the like, but they are a lot slower to generate models of the newest pieces of military equipment.  Does anyone else remember how Revell got into hot water for their early release of the USS George Washington?  So why isn't there a kit of the USS Gerald R. Ford or the USS Zumwalt?  I realize that the level of detail for new models is an order of magnitude higher than Revell's old USS Forestall, but the new ships seem to have very little exterior detail and the younger crowd, all 5 of them, would probably relate more with a stealth destroyer than another version of the Bismarck.  Of course those are my opinions and I could be wrong.  What do you think?