He wouldn't have gave the Yonko ten time the Panel time If that's the case
You think for example all these chapters wasted on giving BM new powers, and showing her experimenting with new techniques will lead to nothing, and the admirals who got pitiful panel time will end up being the more important characters ?
Yonko are the meat of the story, shichi and Admirals and the entirety of pre TS was mostly set up to Yonko and some filler
Panel time was never an indicator of Plot relevance or power-levels. How do you say that the Admiral's panel time is pitiful?
They've been carried throughout the story. First the confrontation with Kuzan, then the Ohara FB, then Shabondy, then Marineford, then the revelation of Akainu v Aokiji at fishman island, then the aftermath at PH, then Fujitora at DR, then Reverie.
- Fujitora single-handily caused greater change in the OP world than Big mom, Kaido and Shanks combined.
Big mom's homies only purpose so far was to get dunked on, it ain't going to change going forward. Admirals are the strongest combatants of the WG, so a future War's main players of the Government will be their strongest unit.