In fact… this can totally be a thing.
I mean being a D. as no real importance storywise for character that are not Luffy but the readers still find that hype. So this can happen as cheap hype to make sell novels.
Now what I expect is to know:
-Why Zoro wants to be the WSS? Where this motivation come from ?
-Why Zoro wears a bandana when he is serious?
And I still think it is expecting to much