honestly I dont see why people have a problem with oda not extending fights. hes never really been like this even going as to stating that he just doesnt like drawing them. so even getting a chapter (which I wasnt even expecting) is a welcome suprise.
Thing is too if the flashback goes on any longer, people will start complaining about that it is taking too long and that oda should hurry up. So in short there is no winning and people will continue to complain.
Oda drew somewhat of an extended fight between Harald and Xebec, and the fight itself was trash, just generic AdCoC spamming with no brainpower required
Oda expanding fights only works if the powers are interesting and worth expanding upon (Katakuri for example)
Expanding a generic muscle fest like Luffy vs Kaido/Xebec vs Harald, when there is no brainpower involved, would just suck
One of the many ways that Haki utterly ruined this manga. Fights between Devil Fruit users used to be interesting, never perfect but at least interesting
But every Haki fighter in this manga is the exact same. The exact same. It’s part of the reason these old gen characters suck, they are all generic black lightning spammers with no unique identity or interesting powers at all. Haki turned Devil Fruit powers into set dressing, when DF powers were the only thing keeping this House of Cards manga from collapsing completely.
Every time I see idiots begging for Oda to expand these fights, I can’t help but laugh. Oda showed us what one of these expanded fights would look like with Xebec vs Harald, expanding these lame as fights is a waste of time. Once you've seen a single generic Haki clash, you’ve seen the entire fight. Oda has nothing left to make this shit interesting lol.