It's the craziest thing. We spend a lot of time with the Beast Pirates in Act 1 & 2 but it's all devoted to SMILE users who don't matter, Queen who sort of matters or Orochi who does not matter. Even to his life long enemies lmfao.
I'll never understand Oda's decision making in keeping Kaido, King, Jack, the Tobi Roppo, the main adversaries to the protagonists, out of the story for so long.
I try not to remember the Oden flashback tbh. It was painful.
Yeah, Xebec being pivotal to Kaido 100% shut down Kaido's flashback. Which is pretty undeserved unless Xebec looks identical to an existing character or is an existing character.