It wasn't a waste of time for anyone with more than a single brain cell. There was no energy to put into it after realization that Zoro wasn't fighting renowned swordsmen pretimeskip.
It didn't clue you in when Zoro was just handed the greatest feat of swordsmanship (a black blade) with no real effort?
Zoro gets handed a black blade
Zoro gets handed a magic sword that allows him to unlock his coc
Every accomplishment he got as a swordsman was because it was handed to him.
That is Luffy
We literally were given an inner monologs before he even learned how to cut steel
Zoro vs mihawk outshined everything luffy and Sanji did
Zoro gave away Ryumas black blade to make his own
To use Enma alone, he has to sacrifice copious amounts of Haki train for it, make his CoA strong enough to scar Kaido and still not enough
To Tank an attack that would have killed 5 luffys at the same time, and then sacrifice it he had to take medicine of double the pain.
While fighting his first YC1 all the odds were against him, fatigue, haki drianed, enma nearly killing him
Had one more Monologue of him realizing true purpose of swords, which led to him unlocking CoC
Now let's look at our beloved condom MC
Joy Boy Sperm? Handed to him with no development
Reincarnation? Handed to him with no development
First YC1? all odds were stacked against YC1
First top tier he defeats: All odds were stacked against the top tier
AdvCoC? He randomly unlocks it
When has Oda put any effort into Luffys any power ups lmao
Ryou is the only power up
And with one million power ups, his AP still can't surpass roof top ashura
Don't try too hard because I am being nice lmao