He could be doing far better, that’s for sure.
First off, Kid finding his own way to damage Kaido is a route I like Oda taking. Instead of just handing him ryou like everybody else, putting his fruit to good use is a far better utilization of his overall abilities. It also gives Oda considerable room to get creative with his fruit to find ways for him to be effective. I don’t expect things to just be limited to compression, there’s far more Oda can draw from with magnetism related abilities than just ferromagnetic compression that would easily cause internal damage, or bypass Kaido’s durability.
On the flipside though, Kid has been doing perhaps the least outta the 5 when it comes to inducing any meaningful damage on Kaido. Oda didn’t waste a step in abandoning Kid’s idea to compress/compact Kaido to death as soon as he brought it up. Because Kid just went full Undertaker on Kaido and just started body slamming him to the ground in 1002. An impressive display of his physical power in Punk Rotten, but its not effective it doesn’t do much of anything in comparison to what the other 4 have been doing. Shit makes me wonder why Oda thinks Kid slamming Kaido to the ground was better than having him put more magnetism related abilities to use, like his Punk Vise. His fruit has a lot of untapped potential that Oda could draw from but instead mans thought going Wrestlemania was a good idea lmao.
Tho it’s still admittedly very early, its only been 3 chapters. It’s for these reasons that I think Kid will get his moments to shine in due time. But yeah Oda could definitely have him doing better to open up this fight.