Gunko and shamrock aren’t who we’re talking about. We’re talking about Killingham and Sommers.
Vastly isn’t an exaggeration. D and B fought the gorosei alongside Luffy and didn’t even get touched instead they were the ones flipping and beheading them. They fought off screen long enough for Luffy to need multiple G5s and they left completely fine. D and Bs portrayal is vastly above Sommers and Killingham.
Well the guy you were talking to spoke of the Holy Knights generally so I assumed we were speaking of them as a unit
Even if you take them individually it’s an unfair comparison. Sommers immobilized Robin instantly and none of the Strawhats without haki have the ability to get out of his thorns (Robin can’t) while Saturn couldn’t even kill the weak trio in Egghead
You’re gonna say it’s “plot” but then we could apply the same thing to Dorry and Brogy. Hell, we saw some of the Giants repel Mars’ lightning beam and they likely aren’t anywhere near the Gorosei in strength either
It isn’t really fair to say their portrayal is vastly inferior just yet