Bro the first episode was about a rubber pirate being the shit out of a fat lady. Like, what did you expect from this series?
luckily i didn't start one piece because i liked the first ep. i bet no one did.
it was crocodile that made me watch it, and the sense of adventure during skypia is what made me fall in love with the story.
plus, luffy has at the most 10% of the worldbuilding value, so he was tolerable for the most part and his goofiness was occasional and spontaneous not heavily forced like his awakening and the recent revelations about his devil fruit implies.
and now the fate of the entire world and the value of the world building depends solely on the ridiculous nature luffy's awakening, and that's enough reason to make me lose interest.