Nah, hold up. Let's not pretend the whole crew isn't awesome.
I wasn't on the forum back then but at that time I wasn't that big a Zoro fan anyway. I had no reason to believe he would kill Kaido. Though I was generally more "pure" in a way, because I wasn't focused on powerscaling at all and just binged the series because I really loved it and loved seeing the SHs' adventures.
I still do read it for that reason but I talk way more about powerscaling than I did like three or four years back. If you asked me back then what I thought about, say, Yonko vs Admirals, I probably couldn't give a decisive answer. I just didn't think about powerscaling that much, all I know is that back then I thought highly of BB and Shanks.