"I'm rooting for Carrot but" please just stop at but
Flying needed to activate. While jumping is like a breath for "rabbit" mink. CoO can't detect ship or island from 20 km. If CoO can detect it we already in laughtale for sure without road Poneglyphs. CoO also can't be activated if you have someone who can stop CoO.
Tbh maybe Yamato not joining is better for her character.
The sh cast is already too large for Oda to manage giving them the focus they need to develop and showcase their character properly.
It's not far fetched to assume that Oda would have ruined her as a strawhat, her presence would have been consumed by boob gags earlier or later and don't even mention the I'm Oden gags.
Imagine the bathhouse scene but driven up to eleven.
Oda took all the bad aspects about One Piece I never liked and steadily expanded upon them while removing the things that I used to like.
Wano's thematic nonsense ending that encourages heritage-based discrimination (like WHAT THE ACTUAL F.) is the icing on the cake. When even WCI had more consistency as an arc that should tell you something.
We shouldn't expect too much from Oda's writing in the future.
He announced that he will rush the ending, that means removal of plot lines we have been anticipating for YEARS. We can expect that he's going to fill those final 5 years with more throwaway characters, more unnecessary reaction faces, more boob and nosebleed jokes.
And at this point I'm beginning to question the thematic coherence of the series's finale.
Will he go for an all CDs bad ending and throw all the complexity about one's actions counting more than one's heritage out of the window?
And at this point I fully expect him to never reveal any of the eos events to the general population in the One Piece world. Just like the citizens of Wano, the people will remain unknowledgeable, passive fodder characters that turn to mythicized tales of gods and magical heroes instead of having (or even wanting) a clear view on the global events that shape their world.
I doubt they will ever find out about Luffy saving them.
All in all, this story has become a disappointment and a shell of its former self. An over-marketed, hyper-commercialised shell.