Right before it cut away to Shanks, Hachinosu, Mary Geose etc.
Plot was focused on Egghead with a distant threat of Kizaru.
There was an intriguing traitor plot we just got and we’re in the process of uncovering.
The Blackbeard pirates were spotted nearby, so added mystery.
The crew was split up between different, unique groups and had to deal with the Seraphim.
Lucci and Luffy fighting together? Kaku and Zoro on the same side again? It’s weird, it’s situational, it kinda works.
Before Oda switched off, Egghead has a lot of interesting moving plots that kinda get disregarded and we have a 1 day timeskip to the marines arriving. And that’s really when the arc goes downhill.