Wholeheartedly agree with everything you've said but it's possible that in this instance, Oda is trying to suggest that Oden never had to use advanced COA to cut Kaidou. He just used overwhelming cutting power + haki. Perhaps using a Two-Sword style 'X' slash multiplies the damage output at the...
What I meant is that Oda doesn't put his money where his mouth is. Falling 10000 meters looks impressive but show some other top tier doing it and coming out heavily injured. Or show Kaidou get back up from something another top tier would be defeated by. Maybe a G4 King Kong Gun or two.
And...
It rankles that we see Kaidou at his worst (well one of his all-time worst) before we ever saw him at his best. Him one-shotting Luffy was to me, a given. Any Yonkou would have done fairly well against that Luffy. Oda didn't show us Kaidou taking hits from fellow Yonkous and just shrugging it...
Find that hard to believe. Kaidou stagnated for 20 years while everyone else either grew stronger or weaker? nahhh
Besides in-universe no-one wpould be hyping Kaidou as the current strongest living thing if he's around the same level he was back then. Big Mom, BB, even the Marines wouldn't be...
Spoilers made it out like Kaidou was a complete fraud and he was cowardly and underhanded.
Turns out, he was basically acting like the WG back at Marineford when they turned the island into an ambush death-trap vs the WB pirates using strategy and tactics.
Trick Oden into a pledge of peace for...
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