Only reason is he doesn’t get stuffed his ass up with every plot kick existing. God DF, legendary Lineage, Legendary trainers around. Help from every legend existing and still endlos plot armor of doom.
but obviously oda prefers to say to his readers:
„Look, you need to be the chosen one to achieve your dreams. Working hard for it doesn’t give you anything, if you wasn’t born with the perfect circumstances.“
Cute but the reality is oda wrote him this way.
1. Kidd ran away from the udon prison and missed out on great ryou training that would have benefited him.
2. After learning he couldn't do shit to kaido opted to fight bigmom instead giving up his dream to kill kaido.
3. Did not even block or stop hakai even momentarily like zoro even though he was the one with the best means to do so with the culminating of using a shit ton of metal to pull off a feat similar to zoro.
4. Has a busted fruit but doesn't use if affectively at all and lacks proper creativity
Kidd was never going to be what you wanted him to be because he is not patient. He runs into situations without ascertaining it. Hence why killer was the one the opted an alliance in the first place. The person with the mindset on the kidds crew to be great was always killer