Yeah, One Piece has flaws like any other stories and isn't perfect, but chapter 1043 showed how many actually read the story while paying attention.
Legit there were people who were upset because Luffy was always "a regular guy" in their mind.
Luffy literally is a D., son of Dragon, grandson of Garp, raised with the son of the previous Pirate King, has all 3 types of haki, connections to a Yonko... etc. Glorosia outright said "What do the heavens want with this boy?" Characters wondering under what star Luffy was born... And various other hints and foreshadowings
If they read all the story and still thought Luffy wasn't anyone special from the start, then it's on them