That's actually not true.
When Oda's writing is actually on point - which it hasn't been for much since the timeskip - the weekly discussions are full of positive vibes and hyping each other up.
Trust me, I'm also an oldtimer. I remember that:
- Sabaody was beloved
- Impel Down was hype
- Marineford was hype
- first part of Dressrosa (until the Birdcage) was well received
- Zou was beloved
- first half of WCI (up until the end of the teaparty) was really well received
- Reverie was just insane hype
There was very little complaining during those parts of the story, because it was simply great to read week for week.
The instances where the overall vibes are getting really negative perfectly correlate with the actual parts of the story, where the writing declines rapidly (bad pacing, questionable plot-decisions etc.):
- Fishman Island (uninteresting villains, questionable pacing)
- second half of Dressrosa (horrible, horrible pacing)
- second half of WCI (horrible pacing again and some really idiotic writing decisions - PIS and plot armor en masse)
- during various parts of Wano, especially the second act (pacing) and the current raid (writing decisions)
When Oda's writing is actually on point - which it hasn't been for much since the timeskip - the weekly discussions are full of positive vibes and hyping each other up.
Trust me, I'm also an oldtimer. I remember that:
- Sabaody was beloved
- Impel Down was hype
- Marineford was hype
- first part of Dressrosa (until the Birdcage) was well received
- Zou was beloved
- first half of WCI (up until the end of the teaparty) was really well received
- Reverie was just insane hype
There was very little complaining during those parts of the story, because it was simply great to read week for week.
The instances where the overall vibes are getting really negative perfectly correlate with the actual parts of the story, where the writing declines rapidly (bad pacing, questionable plot-decisions etc.):
- Fishman Island (uninteresting villains, questionable pacing)
- second half of Dressrosa (horrible, horrible pacing)
- second half of WCI (horrible pacing again and some really idiotic writing decisions - PIS and plot armor en masse)
- during various parts of Wano, especially the second act (pacing) and the current raid (writing decisions)
Sabaody only picked up steam once Rayleigh arrived, to begin with the flying fish stuff and Duval people were disappointed and hated on it cause everyone thought Duval was Don Krieg lol
You'll see in 2 or 3 years time people will love wano just like they do now with all the other 60-100 chapter long arcs
Its nowhere near a perfect arc but its easiy the best of the post time skip era.