If Oda wanted to tell us Calamities are clearly special and clearly above Flyers
He would have give them better fruits instead of Ancient Zoans as flyers have too.
WBP : Oda set apart Marco Ace Jozu
Even tho Vista is close to them, those 3 had better powers on top of haki : Marco has Mythical zoan , Ace had a Logia fruit & Jozu is a diamond man.
RHP : The top 3 are clearly set apart from the rest .
SC : Oda gave SCs better combat fruits + haki, Cracker is one man army, Smoothie can grow big...Kata was even set higher by making him logialike via his special Paramecia fruit.
With Beast pirates :
Only Kaido and Orochi have mythical fruits
Oda didnt even deem King/Queen the privikige to have mythical fruit
Oda has been hyped flyers more than calamities (except Jack)
The fact Kaido wanna show their strength to BM, and even seems them worthy to challenge calamities, if they were all gonna lose then Oda woildnt write this .
One of the calamities is gonna be demoted...either Kidd and Luffy ruin the match and defeat Queen/King or Queen loses to Sasaki + Who Who, Kaido promotes one of them
The Gap between King & Queen with Jack is slim , the gap between calamities and Sasaki/WhoWho isnt that big :
If King is 100
Queen 98
Jack 95
Sasaki 90
WhoWho 89
Drake 89
Black Maria 83
P1 81
Ulti 80
....