@SkySanji
Here's the thing:
If Zoro truly did switch out of "KoH," it still makes no sense to completely sheathe the third sword. Oda consistently drew Zoro using Nitoryu after the fact. Either Oda never intended for Zoro to be using 3 swords, or he simply forgot that he drew it that way. This pretty much guarantees that there was zero thought going into the fight besides the ending, considering Oda had Jimbei run all this way just to deliver a Sanji gag.
Oda hardly draws Zoro effortlessly dodging his opponent's attacks unless there is a genuinely large gap in their combat abilities. Lucci is strong enough to stall Zoro, but not strong enough to actually pose a threat to him. This is even made apparent by the fact that both Sanji and Jimbei aren't even concerned in the slightest and are simply annoyed by him stalling.
The reason why this fight should be eye-opening for people who doubt Zoro is that in an area where Zoro is consistently undersold and mocked (speed/CoO), he displayed an objectively absurd feat against an opponent renowned for his speed and CQC. This was honestly the same case with King, but people turned a blind eye to it. On top of that, many and I mean MANY people pushed the narrative that Zoro can only use ACoC in tandem with KoH and for that reason, Zoro is X amount farther from top tiers than he can be.
However, in this very chapter, the same people who used the aforementioned argument to downplay Zoro are desperate to prove that Zoro used ACoC to finish Lucci, because if he didn't it would mean that Zoro can take YC1-level characters down with genuinely low-end attacks.
So either way, this showing is
massive for the notion that Zoro is significantly closer to top tiers than he was previously given credit for.