Most modern naval shipping has some degree of Stealth I used Zumwalt because it has the most. but Arleigh Burkes, Daring class, Kongō, Atago, Kolkata, Visakhapatnam, Type 52 C and Type 52D, Sejong the Great-class,Steregushchiy class, Gepard-class all have stealthy designs, they may not be able to fully penetrate sea denial zones but they can pierce the edges, physical stealth is signature reduction. It reduces the range of detection by enemy radars with the aim of allowing you as the attacker to get in your weapons range well the enemy cannot see you. a Destroyer or frigate may be stealthed to the point where rather then a detection by enemy radar at thousands of miles it can close to a couple hundred, fighters and Stealthy drones have even smaller sizes and more reduced radar cross section meaning where an enemy may detect a F15 at hundreds of miles an F22 and close to a few dozen.
Destroyer and Naval weapons have far longer range and more available then fighters meaning they can stand off at the edges of enemy radar detection range get data from a network like Link 16 or MADL and engage in strikes from over the horizon.
Carriers and LHA/LHD types could not do this as they are far larger and even stealthed would still have a large cross section. and be visible from a very long range.
your argument of the longer range of warships as compared to that of aircraft is misplaced here (while being formally correct, of course), and in an actual combat it would be incomparably safer to send aircraft off of the carrier to engage the Opfor, than to send for example a Destroyer Squadron to engage the Opfor, simply because the aircraft would be able to "hit and run" (hit as in launching an AShM, run as in flying away for a refill), while the surface combatants would be exposed to the Opfor shooting back; please note I assume realistic conditions, not any imaginary superiority, as I talk peer-to-peer conflict (and not for example the USN going against some Navy of Windward or Leeward Islands
anyway I quickly scrambled the chart below, to consider the tactics in case the encounter happened:
1all in red is a Destroyer Squadron, sailing in the direction of the Opfor coast, towards 'edges of sea denial zone' from your post;
1all in blue is a Destroyer Squadron of the Opfor, on patrol because of the info about the Red Force coming;
from what I've read the likely tactical move of the Blue Force would be split (various
2. in blue: half of it egresses at first (so that Red Force pursues:
2all in red), the other half turns to sides of the Red Force, not to encircle
but to position helos for mid-course correction(s) of the AShMs
OK now I changed my mind and we may actually play it here, if you don't consider it silly LOL
(I would be the Blue Force; your move):