this isn't meritocracy when it comes down to gorosei, they're interchangeable that was shown clear as day with saturn...
Except 2 things can be true at once
ranks = power
and imu punishes failure
that's why Saturn was killed off... he was killed off for failing to kill joyboy
Not because Saturn was suddenly weaker than Garling or bozo shamrock.
And garling only got promotion because he next best thing after Saturn not because he's better than Saturn lmao
Teach was offered rank but denied it and guess what regardless of his strength it was offered for years on crew, not for power. your point is invalid here.
Lol you're the one bringing up garp not me...
Yeah... so you have
context as to why those 2 don't go to upper ranks
meanwhile you have no such thing with garling and shamrock, there's no context as to why they never got up in rank until Imu killed off Saturn. It just means they were too weak.
and you are trying to push these examples that are
exceptions as some sort of proof that rank doesn't matter.