They only had this illusion since Rumor Man was declaring Luffy as some formidable opponent when the MC was just using G2/G3 at that time. But now people see how fraudulent Kaido really is. Heck, his "portrayal" even fooled me back in Wano but the moment this dude was defeated in a 1vs1 by Luffy instead of being jumped by everyone in the final stage of this battle during his awakening mode, I knew he isn't that guy and will be powercliffed soon.
A mentally nerfed Kizaru was negging the form which forced Drunken Style Kaido to use FS and extra-measures to counter it should already tell enough but at least people cannot come up with excuses THIS TIME now that there's a god tier of which these excuses no longer work.
Agreeing with the Kaido part,
But imagine gassing up a man that got basically doing 0 damage to goofy, pizzafied, made him dream stars, stalled by Rayleigh, Marco & and put his arms-up like a criminal because of Beckmann.
Pizzaru clowns are truly shameless.
And never leaving the mentally nerf parted as an excuse out.