Yep. It's not even a competition.
One Piece went downhill with the second part of WCI when Big Mom got reduced from a terrifying Yonko to a gigantic crying retard who consistently shouts at a wedding cake and got clowned by weak trio and Jimbei. After that, everything just went completely terrible.
Oda clearly needs new editors or a long, long, long break 1.) to focus on his health 2.) sharpening his writing skills again because let's be honest, Oda's writing is complete trash rn and if it was a newbie mangaka, it wouldn't even win the first competition against other mangas.
Sure, people can also just say "Fuck that shit, Oda doesn't have to care about his haters", yes, he doesn't have to listen to randoms. It's perfectly reasonable. However, it's worrisome if more and more people start to criticize each chapter in which the writing went off. He can give no fucks to 100 or 1000 people - but what if it starts reaching 6 digits of complainers?
See how amazing Hakuba's introduction was
From vice admirals talking about the legend of a hurricane whenever the rogue prince is present, building up the character. To finally getting his grand intro soloing the entire Colosseum group effortlessly, to the point even SABO was shocked at this speed:
This was just for a side character, who would become Grand fleets first Captain by the way.
Oda knew how to deliver on character intros back in the day.
Compare that to Gorosei introduction, these characters are legends who are centuries old.
Hakuba intro >>> any intro in Egghead. The difference in energy when it comes to Oda's writing, between Dresrossa and now is painfully obvious to anyone objective.
Luffy's energy in Dresrossa, his character >> Luffy in Wano. Compare dialogues to kaido vs Doflamingo.
Zoro cutting Pica in half was more hype than anything he did in Wano, even tho on paper the hakai feat should be far more impressive. Energy due to execution.
KKG on Doflamingo felt way more impactful than Bajrang gun, even though they were parallels, with big punch and in how the villains were both sent far under the ground.
Doflamingo as a villain >>> kaido as a villain