That is one pathetic parallelism. I didnt know character growth was letting yourself get caught and watching men around you die because he "Loves all Ladiessssss". Against Khalifa at least he actually defended himself and was slightly less pathetic. He couldnt even break the webs, are the webs also Ladies as well that he can't kick
The start of that sequence (end of 996) is evidence that there has been no character growth. Lack of CoO to detect it was a trap, and goofing off for the same reason he did at the beginning of the war when he said to Nami and Carrot that he would save those Ladies. Even Kids crew called him pathetic.
FI Zoro lost his breath underwater after beating Hody or the other situation where Zoro got arrested but also wasnt crying for help, and ended up freeing himself from the cell
Marco offered to take Zoro to the roof bec he knew how strong he was and believes in him as New Generation, did not know that was a bad thing LOL
A speed reader, I see.
I guess you didn't even understand that Oden was selfish and didn't want to rely on his subordinates/friends and carried with situation alone (and that's why he lost probably). That's what Sanji did with Califa and now he didn't with Robin, pretty clear.
Go read some books to enhance your comprenhension capacity and then you can discuss about characters development xDD.
Your whole comment was revolving around Sanji's chivarly which is something that won't change since it's something characteristic of him (like Nami's love for money, Usopp sickness of not dangerous situations/places, etc).
The other stuff is something pretty common in Oda's story (forgetting about his chars' powers for the purpose of letting the plot advance, like Luffy and Zoro not being able to sense strange people from afar and letting Tama's being kidnapped or not being able to reach Gazelman).
The situation here is pretty clear, Oda needed to stall Sanji and he did it by all means.
Without Brook help and then Pappagu, Zoro couldn't free himself alone since he didn't have his swords. He would have died. It's good for him that Oda loves him and didn't let him arrive at that point.
I didn't say it was a bad thing. What I said is that Zoro couldn't arrive at the roof for himself, so "his buisness" wouldn't have been possible without Marco.
Next.