What can possibly be Big Mom's awakening anyways? Doesn't her Soul Pocus kinda fit in the "awakening territory"?
Not even Oda himself is sure of what "Awakening" is.
For Doffy and Katakuri, it was turning the environment into their substance (strings or mochi).
But Crocodile was able to turn shit into sand by sucking them dry way back in Alabasta.
For Zoans it's just a new layer of stats boosts.
For convoluted powers like the Ope Ope no Mi? Anything is game.
To be fair, these awakenings ARE asspulls, but they are not as bad as some others. They are "Ennies Lobby" level of asspull.
Kinemon's reason to survive though......
Can Law cut himself in thousands of little pieces, glue himself back up, but not entirely, like what happened to Kinemon, than be immune to Mihawk and Zoro's slashes and beat them easily?
Who needs "haki", when you got "hacks"?