If you guys think Kidd is so much important to the endgame you deserve to be disappointed.
This puts a lot of stakes in the End game. A prominent pirate crew has been demolished. This is ruthlessness. Nobody in their dreams would have thought of this outcome.
You wanted deaths, here you have the chance to gobble that but no, when you get surprised, you cry like babies. Is Kidd more important than the likes of Luffy, Shanks, BB, SHPs, RHPs, the Navy, the Gorosei, SHPs allied nations,CP-0, Vivi, etc.? Absolutely not. This is exactly like coping for ZKK.
Get over your fanboy bias, the end battle for One Piece would always have been between Luffy, Blackbeard and Shanks and Oda has made the choice to bring this into the story. Kidd wasn't going to be there at EOS so he has to be written out anyways.
Kidd has nothing to achieve in the story. He is not a D like Law, we have to discover what the will of D. really is.
Oda has the balls to do this to up the stakes for the Endgame. Now this feels like the final stretch of One Piece. Unexpected things will happen.