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What’s funny is that while this is an L, it’s not why this aggravates me.

1) We didn’t see GB’s full moveset — the dialogue about getting more serious before Shanks shows up implies this. GB didn’t use a bull attack (Fujitora has “raging tiger” , Aokiji has “pheasant beak”, etc), but he definitely has one.

2) GB says not today to Shanks.

1 + 2) imply that GB is still a future antagonist and being saved.

Here’s the problem. As a general rule of writing, you never want to dehype an antagonist before he actually gets focuse.

This is writing 101, and it bothers me a lot that Oda did this.

Now if Zoro or Sanji or whoever fights GB, literally no one will give a shit.
It's worth noting that for how goofy his exit of the arc looked, GB was undamaged and was just starting to take it seriously.
Even in Film Red that is Red Hair Pirates wankfest movie, Kizaru and Fuji came out of it unscathed.
For all the "ladmirals", they're still virtually untouched as we're entering the final saga.
I think the problem is that Oda needed to hype Shanks (because he's likely dying against BB and for the movie) but at this state of the story commander level characters are irrelevant so admirals had to be used to hype him. But since Oda also wans them as future opponents, they couldn't be touched. So he did with COC flex
 
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