TOEI fucking degrades other characters like Sanji vs King, and Luffy losing against Batman etc. Their powerscaling inconsistencies are shutter than Oda ever shows in manga. They do nice animation with over the top wank only for Zoro.
They have a lot more to do than to engage in powerscaling. It has always been the main thing to give out spectacular animation and stretch the timing. They already had a template for this Sanji technique ready(Osoba kick). They just replaced the background and put King instead of PageOne.
Anime has always been considered an adaptation, no more. When Sanji knocked out Drake, Sanji's fans immediately started referring to the anime, forgetting the recent fight with PageOne, and now this.
If you take examples from anime, you will always encounter contradictions. Although in the manga itself, there are also a lot of them in this arc.