Well to me I already see a problem within the story already being Dragon and Kuma’s incompetence
I made a post already about this but just replace the revs in this situation with any other group… Replace Ginny with Smoothie and Dragon and Kuma with Big mom and Katakuri… There is no world in which this plays out the same way in this situation… and yes I know Big mom doesn’t care about her kids but Katakuri does… and big mom wouldn’t take the disrespect of having her kids enslaved
if you want to say the Revs were too weak by that time to compare to the Big mom pirates, then take the Pre time skip strawhats here… Replace Ginny with Nami, and Dragon and Kuma with Luffy and Zoro… Again this wouldn’t play out like this
This is what I mean by the darkness not matching the rest of the story…you can argue that Dragon is different from Big mom and Luffy and Dragon is a darker more serious guy than those two and makes more calculated decisions and couldn’t risk his men on a rescue
that’s all true. That’s the Dark and edgy reason Dragon has for this situation… Now problem is that when the Flashback ends and we are no longer in Dark and Edgy land, WE LIKE THAT LUFFY WOULD STORM MARIEJOIS… the rest of the story rewards Luffy for not being dark and edgy… The rest of the story wants Luffy to not make calculated decisions and just go wild
So I’m left with the feeling that Dragon is just a bum. You can justify his actions within this dark and edgy flashback but this isn’t what the actual story is. In the real story, HELL NO… Dragon is just a bum