I hate myself for sounding like a disillusioned Carrot fan from one of @Mr. Reloaded's fanfics, but this is too true. Like what was even the point of having Carrot and Yamato tag along and bond with the crew with all their talk of wanting to go out to sea and explore the world when they just show up only to disappear without a proper sendoff in the most unsatisfying and lackluster ways imaginable?
At least with Yamato she was only introduced in the literal last stretch of Wano and her character never amounted to anything more than being an annoying Oden larper with sideboobs, but you had Carrot tagging along with the Straw Hats for almost a decade and LOda giving her familial bonding moments with almost every crew member that wasn't on Wano during that time only to just make her disappear without a freaking word, effectively making you wonder why she was even with them at all, especially since she never had a deeper role to play like being on a secret mission for Zou.
Its like if Vivi's journey with the Straw Hats ended the moment they arrived in Alabasta and Vivi split off from them to go stay in that sand-buried village while the Straw Hats solved everything by themselves without ever seeing or mentioning Vivi again as they get chased off by Smoker once its over, with the audience only seeing her for one panel at near the end where her father says that he needs her to become queen.
At least with Yamato she was only introduced in the literal last stretch of Wano and her character never amounted to anything more than being an annoying Oden larper with sideboobs, but you had Carrot tagging along with the Straw Hats for almost a decade and LOda giving her familial bonding moments with almost every crew member that wasn't on Wano during that time only to just make her disappear without a freaking word, effectively making you wonder why she was even with them at all, especially since she never had a deeper role to play like being on a secret mission for Zou.
Its like if Vivi's journey with the Straw Hats ended the moment they arrived in Alabasta and Vivi split off from them to go stay in that sand-buried village while the Straw Hats solved everything by themselves without ever seeing or mentioning Vivi again as they get chased off by Smoker once its over, with the audience only seeing her for one panel at near the end where her father says that he needs her to become queen.