"Crews can't stop sweating on the flight deck" is exactly like saying "the middle east is hot and people sweat in the sun there". It has very little to do with the ships and everything to do with a climate that is hot (which, rather obviously, effects almost everyone in the region). If you want an actual example of a meaningful operational problem cause by a warship not suited to operations in hot waters, see the Type 45 (and even that is finally being fixed).

> That's just another way of saying what I said: they can't operate at close range and must instead use stand off weapons instead of, say, gravity bombs.

It really isn't. Outside of rare cases where mid-air refueling is unavailable, standoff weapons are used to reduce exposure to enemy air defense, not to increase range. Your airwing uses exactly the same gravity bombs to strike a target 10 miles from the carrier as they do at 50 miles or 100 miles or 200 miles.