I can't get lose of the feeling, that Oda again did just everything in order to not reveal any of Kaido's major abilities. I'm with
@HeroesNZ on this one.
The narrative was again far more relevant than powerlvls, which is not a bad thing and actually should be this way, but let's not act like it isn't this way.
Similar thing happened to Jack.
Thing is Kaido has, by a mile, the stat wise strongest Zoan df. It's to a point where I'm asking myself what Oda was even thinking when he created this one, granted that base Kaido already one shots other high and top tiers. Ancient zoans are already extremely powerful, but his fruit is off the charts. It's a real possibility that he in his awakened hybrid mode, can low/low mid diff his own base. It's not some Jabra, wolf df kinda thing. It's a sub tiers skipping power up, people really seem to forget that.
With that said: Him getting wounded in dragon form and then this hostage distraction one shot is faaar to convenient for me. Oda kept it as short as possible and w/o revealing anything unnecessary. We can't even say for sure it Oden used adv. CoA, cause all the attack preparation scenes where skipped. It's so obvious, what Oda does here.
I'm glad that Oden could do it w/o that last resort "Enma sucking all of his haki out" - thing, that many speculated on and all this definitely put a number on Kaido's invincibility hype. I like it this way, this makes him atleast realistically beatable. And I now think that his df power is a big chunk of his overall power aswell. So in some way it, yes, somewhat dehyped Kaido for me, in particular base Kaido. Earlier or later his durability had to be exposed tho.
He still has his WSC title, his 1on1 hype and his real powerful df abilities in the recent story tho, that's why I still think he's probably nearly unbeatable all out. And pulling out those still hidden abilities, will probably be the twist during the war, after Luffy hammered his base.