Germa 66 is alive and well, another L for BM.
The problem is not only that everyone escaped, it's also the fact that Oda made a big deal with having the WCI arc end in a cliffhanger and making the readers believe that something bad was going to happen to either Jinbe and the Sun Pirates or Germa 66.
If Oda was planning to have everyone escape then I don't get why he even bothered making that cliffhanger.
I want tension in an arc, stakes. Not death.
In an arc about war there is simply none of the above happening.
And thus this arc is a failure.
Even though I like the characters, this war is a joke. You would think a war against two Yonko's and a Yonko crew would be a lot more dangerous but nope.
Oda creating fake tension, characters surviving in bs ways, and of course an eight year old girl who managed to get a majority of the enemies to switch sides.