Totally irrelevant is an exaggeration, even in the last chapter the crew was confronted by the numbers first before the calamities. So it's evident that they're the first roadblock here.
Why do you make the conjecture that it is imperative of the crew to absolutely be the highlight of the next chapter because they got a double spread in the last chapter while also knowing that there are a 100 other things happening in the background which need to be addressed?
The spoilers mention Luffy fighting the numbers but there could also be panels of the crew doing something besides him.
We need more context on how the Queen and Drake eb part played out but yes, if it did happen abruptly then it is a valid criticism to an extent.
Having an inflated cast does cause problems but I don't see any problems in this chapter specifically except for the Queen-Drake encounter you eanmentioned.But the backlash it was getting throughout the course of this thread was unwarranted and annoying. From what I see it's mostly because people didn't get their matchup toys to play with.
Agree, why you should bothering about characters growth when you could show another fodders who doing nothing to plot. I mean SH have already plot armor, and we saw that to became strong you should just be offpanelled. So yes why you should bothered about em....
Well, I have one reason to Bother.
You are dumb, as well as everyone who consider SH development as " not important". Imagine final fight where Black Beard, admirals etc will lose to SH crew because of Plot Armor, if that happened I doubt that you will feel satisfied, fools.