The amount of delusion over a fictional series... I truly don't get it. Marineford broke people's brains and made them way overestimate a Yonko's crew. Oda was trying to send WB off respectfully, and people took that as YCs being some big shots.
At the end of the day most YCs just aren't that strong. Deal with it. I told you even all the King hype was fake hype. Zoro just needed to figure out his "secret" and it was game over.
You guys just don't seem to get it. Zoan awakening was the first awakening we've ever seen in the entire series. This was showcased by a bunch of low tier Zoans. The Demon Jailers were massively weaker than Luffy, Jinbei and Crocodile, and they got back up after being defeated.
Kaido has the Strongest Zoan army in the World, with the Calamities being just below the pinnacle tier of One Piece. If Oda isn't going to bring Zoan awakening into play here, against the Strongest Zoan army in the World, then where the fuck else is he going to do it?
Jack got his entire World demolished by an Elephant larger than an Island, and we saw him conscious at the bottom of the Ocean not long after. After he was defeated by the Sulong Dukes, Kaido told him to go down and recover. Massive indicator that Jack's regen is on a different level.
Like I said, if you guys are cool with Oda going, "Meh, fuck the Awakening" and keeping it moving, then to each his own. I am not. People wanna yammering on about shit being "piss poor terrible writing", that actually isn't, but be 100 percent OK with some of the strongest people in the World being completely defeated in like 5 minutes because "Powerup".