I really don’t care about how many small clashes are in an arc? I’d rather an arc have solid story progression leading to one good actually war rather than oda write another Wano with a bunch of minor clashes and cheap action but no actual narrative movement
Yeah, I agree. But between those "clashes", Egghead still had a lot of lore (Kuma/Bonney relation, Emeth, mother flame, Queen lily, Garling family, more on GV, Vegapunk on df, Gorosei true form and powers, Kuma past, Joyboy info, the world sinking etc...).
And still keep the pacing with the fights.
Kuma fb and VP speech was the boring stretch of the arc, while Elbaf had the lego part, we finally met Loki and Oda did dog sh*t with him for the last 20 chapters, we got Shamrock and Gunko (the only interesting HK imo) and he got rid of Shanrock inmediately and we got stuck with 1 clown and a horse. Gunko was the other interesting HK and now is possesed by Imu. Imu just made more fodders demons and more fodder dram monsters (so more waste of space, just like the numbers on Wano). And now we enter the fb... yeah, aside from Shamrock and Gaban, and Robin/Saul reunion, this is another Wano but worse, not fights.