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>>28871477
Shimakaze was an experiment, and denotes how much (kinda misguided) focus the IJN had on torpedoes. A boat to carry 15 torpedo tubes and with a new type of boiler that could increase speed significantly. Given that her planned sisters were cancelled and the efforts redirected towards 8 more Yuugumos, I'd say they thought it wasn't worth it.
Yamato was made for the sole purpose of fighting other battleships, which by itself is already a misguided notion because there was not a lot of battleships engaging each other, and thus slapped with guns that could ram right through armor built to withstand 41cm gunfire, while having enough armor to withstand said 41cm fire, thus pushing it to that gigantic displacement. In the budding age of navy aviation, it was about as useful as you can expect (especially after, ironically, the IJN proved the value of naval aviation by sinking Repulse and Prince of Wales quite easily with planes).
I still love her though.