Said interactions are supposed to be extremely rare, and usually characters appear mysterious (even as just silhouettes) for decades until it's time for their arc.
It was simply not their time in Oda's style of writing.
It's similar to what happens to Shichibukais like Doflamingo, who was...
Well, Pranks could be a clone. The timeline doesn't fully make sense for him to look the same age as Shanks, but we know clones can reach maturity much faster so who knows. The part of the theory that kind of falls off in the theory is WG keeping blood or DNA samples of Shanks lying around...
But it shouldn't be. It hurts the world building, which is integral to the series even if we approach it as an adventure manga.
Oda should be criticized for that, even if we accept that he made it stupid.
The bandage fruit is only salvageable if it's some paper logia like that video game villain from back in the day.
However, judging all Holy Knights over her fruit is like judging CP9 back in the day because of Califa's fruit and power level.
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