Yeah, people keep talking about “pushing away.”
Now, I haven’t reread Wano so maybe I’ve missed this, but has CoC ever been used to just push someone away without doing any damage to them? All the times I remember (Roger vs Oden and Whitebeard, Luffy and Zoro vs Kaido, Yamato vs Kaido, Big Mom vs Page One) when CoC infusion is used in an attack- it fucking hurts people, it doesn‘t give then some random friendly force push lol.
Also there‘s, y’know, no sign that King is being pushed anywhere, which is an important part of the argument.