Oda's powerscaling is just loose and flexible really imo, its just for fanservice to every fandoms he had garnered, nothing set in stone as long as its to meet the plot requirement and since the author himself doesnt take that stuff strictly either.
Yeah exactly, his blasΓ©, trolling attitude doesn't help. He seems to rather enjoying leading us on and trolling us, evading questions or giving cryptic and nonsensical answers instead. Keep us chasing that carrot on the stick.
It makes sense too what you said there, Dragonball, Bleach, Naruto, Fairy Tail etc fans have come over from their series ending and it has affected the community drastically too. Toei even said they wanted to make the Wano anime more like DBS when it was said the DBS team were coming to work on it or something.
That does seem to be true unfortunately, it really sucks for us. All these constant new questions and mysteries and giving us scraps of what we really want, with the vain hope we might see more of it or what's missing in the next few months or especially and more likely years at least.
It also doesn't help that we're probably on about 36 chapters a year currently so that gives us 108 chapters only in 3 years. That is dragging down the pacing even harder and making the wait for so many things as well as the story to progress all the more worse too. Something like 20-25% slower than what we should be getting?
And instead of cutting down his story to help rectify the problems that caused his health issues too, he's still overworking whilst working less time than he actually does, he's still adding tons of unnecessary characters, distractions, minor plot lines and ways to stall the story and such too.
It's absolutely insane how truly overbloated the story has become now. I really dread for future arcs now too.