I don't think so. Most people didn't even think he was nerfed mentally because how big of a dick Kizaru is.
With Garp in MF it was a lot more obvious. Oda portrays Garp as a Hero, he's never portrayed Kizaru as a hero, not even once. He's just human. He even only revealed that he fed Luffy in an sbs because he didn't want that in the manga.
Kizaru telling Luffy he doesn't want to kill Vegapunk, saying he doesn't want to make this more painful than it should be, sneaking food to Luffy, telling fodder Marines he's badly wounded mentally, yelling at Akainu for doubting that he killed Vegapunk, saying he's about to cry because of the events on Egghead, etc.
He's clearly meant to be a sympathetic villain, made even more evident by all the people that were making art of him and calling him their new favorite character and what not.
I don't have an issue with that but Oda should have made him actually learn a lesson if he wanted us to pity him. Right now it just feels like Egghead destroyed him as a character (or rather Oda's intentions being so vastly different from what's actually happening in the story is destroying Kizaru).
Nothing here debunk what I said.
Bro is vibing on a beach during a genocide that HIS SON is at btw 😂
It does. He told them not to kidnap Shakky, they did just that, and then Kong called him up complaining about Rocks coming to kill the CDs, and Garp just laughed at him.
If not for Roger appearing, Garp was FULLY INTENT on letting Rocks and his goons destroy the Holy Knights there.