Thing with yonko saga is a decision that was made by the author...that is to make this saga and to make it such that MC will fight to defeat the enemy and that's how the plot will progress(What I mean is even without getting stronger or focussing on MC fighting WCI could have been used as a way to get allied with BM who then would have helped defeat Kaido. Though it won't fit now). And I believe the same to happen in future arcs. We are shown through Roger that it's not necessary to fight or defeat anyone to achieve or at least reach the end game...but right now I feel writing that route will probably take more creativity for oda and he is taking easy route which in Luffy's words is kick everyone's ass.
The comparison which I wanted to make with other series is this...like take any character(or lets call them people)...in Naruto if that person is ninja he does ninjutsu and is involved in an organization, in FT if he is a magician he uses some kind of magic, in Bleach if he is a shinigami we associate Zanpakto and shinigami skills with him. There is a distinction made because of the way the show's base is structured. It's a simple formula and works to attract readers as anyone can think of certain stories with that particular character. With one-piece there is no such thing. Pirates don't feel anything special. Their main thing is going on adventures to find treasure, fight with navy etc. And we have pretty much no such stories to tell except skypeia for SHs. It's not just that, but at least one piece strong point is that they have pirates who have different human skills like SHs and solve problems and adversaries using those skills...I mean if it was actually written to make it so. I think there was a special called Heart of Gold or something which basically did this..it was written such that each character used their specialty to help rather than fight people. Though can't expect much now from all. I doubt we get anything other than fights to solve issues and whatever mysteries are we just get them thrown at face without much effort in actively finding/solving them.
The comparison which I wanted to make with other series is this...like take any character(or lets call them people)...in Naruto if that person is ninja he does ninjutsu and is involved in an organization, in FT if he is a magician he uses some kind of magic, in Bleach if he is a shinigami we associate Zanpakto and shinigami skills with him. There is a distinction made because of the way the show's base is structured. It's a simple formula and works to attract readers as anyone can think of certain stories with that particular character. With one-piece there is no such thing. Pirates don't feel anything special. Their main thing is going on adventures to find treasure, fight with navy etc. And we have pretty much no such stories to tell except skypeia for SHs. It's not just that, but at least one piece strong point is that they have pirates who have different human skills like SHs and solve problems and adversaries using those skills...I mean if it was actually written to make it so. I think there was a special called Heart of Gold or something which basically did this..it was written such that each character used their specialty to help rather than fight people. Though can't expect much now from all. I doubt we get anything other than fights to solve issues and whatever mysteries are we just get them thrown at face without much effort in actively finding/solving them.
But because he talk about and set up these characters for so long and it is also fighting manga people expect some fights vs these characters.
Oda wants to finish the manga it would have been much easier just have characters steal stuff or do other aspect than do fights .
Like this act has been nothing but fighting and Oda simple bad at timing him self lol.