I get what you mean, but personally I wish the story left the time of introductions behind and got into the meat of the story. Not too many chapters ago Oda seemed to push the story to go into the endgame, and set up some sense of urgency with the reveal of the world flooding soon. Gorosei talking about the "great cleansing", Imu using Uranus, Celestial Dragons on a clock because they're being starved out...
And now Straw Hats are chilling in Elbaf, and it feels to me like the world is slowing down again. This throwaway line of, "if Loki escapes, it means the end of the world!" is so strange to me, because not too long ago we already read that the world is ending anyhow... Are the giants not aware of this? Eh, whatever.
Feels like the characters don't actually live in the world they live in when they don't even consider the world events and just take a stroll in Elbaf for fun. (Regardless of whether it's in-character for Luffy or Usopp for example.)