Put Zoro and Sanji combined in the same situation as Jinbei and both would get fodderized as well. It won't change the outcome
It's not about letting Gunko kidnap the kids, it's them being way too weak to make any difference.
The Doffy situation is a bad example here, because Doffy did render him useless and would've killed the crew if not for Law's intervention.
You guys are over estimating this shit crew. The fact these guys will continue to struggle against fodders like Commanders in the future should let you know how trash this crew is and it's Luffy doing the biggest carry job.
Luffy said he will protect them.
Other strawhats shouldn't have been fighters because it's Luffy's job to protect them
That's why story should have been just Luffy and Nami
Luffy being fighter and Nami navigating.
You don't really need other strawhats
But Zoro and Sanji can exist because they keep fandom alive
Story would have been so much better if there were only 4 strawhats.
Oda wouldn't have to put m3 in background so others can do something and Nami being captured wouldn’t have been big deal because she would have been alone.
Four of them and one having billion bounty losing like this doesn't make sense.
And this only happened because there are so many strawhats and Oda doesn't know what to do with them.
That's the reason majority of them were stuck in labophase during egghead.
Oda just needs to remove other strawhats and focus on m3 and Nami only