"One Piece" is actually an over-elaborate Jenga game that become centuries long.
I wouldn't even be mad tbh.
I kinda feel the OP is an elaborate hoax to keep the spirit of adventure alive, to keep people chasing their dreams, to never stop living and having adventures, exploring and and such.
I was re-reading Roger's discovery of the OP and whoever said it might be a joke book may not be so far off tbh.
Wouldn't a joke book or a funny story book be fitting somehow? A sort of meta moment by Oda where the "One Piece" is the "funniest story ever told"? It would be the ultimate circlejerk he could do but it would be kinda poetic and fitting too?
Whitebeard said the world would be shaken to its core by the reveal of the One Piece but what it is because, this truly immensely hyped up, sought after and speculated treasure is a just a seemingly simple joke book that has also survived and thus been around for countless centuries?
The reason OP will shake the world is not because it's something extremely valuable in monetary/financial terms or whatever, not priceless treasure/gems/jewels or whatever, no gold, silver or whatever, not your typical pirate treasure at all but a joke book or something equally ridiculous?
Given what Gear 5th Luffy turned out to be like and thus the true nature of his DF, is it too far fetched now especially to assume Oda won't pull another stunt of this calibre or magnitude? To truly troll everyone who has such immense expectations of the series including myself of course and try to remind us and understand what the true spirit of the series is? What he wanted his story to be from the beginning and never lose that identity it had?