I think you think Oda respects Kizaru too much for that, but I dont lol.
I know he would find a way which is what I said.
Kizaru had the Luxury to be fighting Luffy who was keeping him in check.
Against the Gorosei Luffy cant keep them in check, nobody can. So we have Oda who wants to portray them as these unstopable monsters but also not allow them to do shit to the straw hats and their friends which creates this narrative dissonance where Oda wants his cake and eat it too.
I hope you understand where Im coming from, and yes this does make them look bad in the eyes of the readers but the readers should be smart enough to know the Goroseis hands are literally tied lol. Oda made a bad writting choice and now the Goroseis portrayal is paying the price.
They looked imposing to me lol, I just knew they couldnt kill Luffy. Here I have people in the thread telling me the Gorosei are shit because they didnt kill Bonney, or because they didnt kill the straw hats. The double standard is very real lol.
Aokiji was stalled by Jozu, Kizaru was stopped by Marco, Akainu was stopped by Marco, then stopped by the Whitebeard pirates, then stopped by Crocodiles, etc all people much weaker then them but they were stopped or stalled.
Sure the straw hats are no Yonko commanders but they are the most plot protected people in the manga, and them stalling Saturn who isnt even focusing on them is fine. But people bashed Saturn for that.
Other then that nobody else could stop the Gorosei but Luffy himself with Ju Peter, and hes running from Warcury with the giants.
I feel like people are being a bit biased right now.