Im sama destroys an island and kills lots of people
fans:
Oda: i'm gonna kill Garp
fans:
Relativity and bias hits different.
Garp is a beloved character for the whole series so far, one of the strongest, jolliest craziest and grandfather of the extremely loved MC too.
People are gonna be much more biased towards him naturally.
Honestly I feel Oda is not giving the Lulusia incident the gravitas it deserves either.
Most fans don't care about "fodders/nobodies/randoms" dying either.
One Piece has really understated moments of absolute horror, including Lulusia being eviscerated like that. Buster Calls were bad enough!
Plus we're seeing Garp get fucked up in real-time in an unfair fight with dirty tactics and the Lulusians, we didn't see them get wiped out directly up close, we only saw the attack wiping it out IIRC.
This was One Pieces nuking of Japans type moment, that we were meant to get at Wano but Oda fucked it up both by not doing it at Wano but also the actual impact of it with Lulusia.
The yet another Sabo death fakeout with completely ridiculous plot convenience and insulting baiting didn't help. Same for the Lulusians who survived.
Oda is handling death in the story for most involved characters with it too which doesn't help.