While that's true, he absolutely refused to draw anything, any meaningful injuries, any characters that haven't been mentioned sincs GV or the age of the Old era to kill of, any of the WG member to kill of, not even relevant clashes between the rivaling pirate crews or the wg.
Literally no tension at all, for an event that inverse should have been the greatest confrontation so far.
Can't take this seriously when everyone was goofing around, making jokes and running across the island.
Compare this to Marineford and you'd think those two events are written by completely different writers.
How can he draw meaningful injuries it comes back to us knowing those characters would be fine .
It the same for fights i would have love to see some since it would have been awesome .
Still at end of the day you know they would have been no winner or serious damage done to the person .
MF had current day impact ( it also hardly had any real fights it was mostly clashes even WB and we get short version of that with rocks vs Garp and roger ) .
GV impact on the story was showed to us from since manga started .
I never saw GV having any tension when we knew so much of the out come .
You are acting like him killing off people we don't know would have matter .
He kill of a admiral earlier in the flashback but that don't mean shit when it 40 years before current time .
EDIT also forget that GV also show us how dragon become the way he is so he did try add certain things to it .