to all those who have complained about the importance of strawhats, this is where it leads us.
There is no prospect where they fail, where they have difficulties. Chopper is not useful? Fine, he'll cure a deadly pandemic during a war, save everyone and slap a calamity on the face ....
The story would have been more interesting if the weaker mugi would have always been left behind in conflicts of this scale. Now the enemies are created only to serve as punching bags for the strawhats, hence the lack of tension.