We've already seen with Doflamingo and Katakuri that they both talk about awakening. Same happened with Kaido recognizing Luffy's awakening. Very likely we will see a Kaido awakening
As I said before OP story is suffering from an overdose of characters which are simply not needed at all...
Imagine if in Oda's head O-Tama never needed 3-4 chapters for he's bullshit... Because that's exactly what he thought while writing pre ts... Those characters are simply not likable/interesting enough for us to be invested on reading this bs...
Hopefully Elbaph will be a much smaller and simpler Arc because that's where Oda thrives...
IMO, it's just smaller characters don't work in large scale arcs. If a character doesn't have end game plot relevance in a end game arc, it seems alot of people tend to dislike them. IMO, I like O-tama and O-toko, but I understand when people want more of Luffy's end game rather than seeing citizens suffer. Though I also think if most of the samurai looked like complete badasses, more people would care about them, but that's just me.