I read this series for 10 years strong and it is enough for me to understand that One Piece has great storytelling and world-building.
So me wanting fights so bad is not that bad, to be honest.
You have been reading weakly for 10 years.
The suffering must be unimaginable
98% of what we get is stoty telling...
Ofc we want to see some fights! And it's stupid to say that's all we care about...just because we want something doesn't mean we don't care about the rest, that just doesn't make any sense...
The problem is when we get fights or skirmishes people let preconceived thoughts(notions) on charecters - headcanon- decide weather something makes sense or not.
For example we havent seen much from the gifters yet people treat them like foughter, so when we see zoro being hindered by a group of them (one of their first showing in the series and we learn that they were pirates that reached the new world and challenged a yonku) people start shitting on zoro because they think the gifters are weak.
Or with sanji "fighting"-it wasn't a fight it was a skirmish-page one people started insulting sanji because page one recovered fast even though a zoan fruit user heals fast,and in the manga the fight was extremly short.
Or with appo who has a semi hax ability (if you hear him you
will get hit) people starting dissing on luffy and zoro,because appo is weak according to thier head canon.
Or now with the tobi ropo and people ranking them when only 2 of them have fought, when the fight with the tobi rope start they will bitch and moan on how a charecter who is
supposedly stronger than Ulti is losing
Sorry for the rant its just people deciding thier head canon is right for no reason even though it contradicts canon annoyes me.