I'm pretty fucking sad with the chosen one plot, but I don't consider my time wasted and I'll still follow One Piece like a maniac, because Luffy was never the reason I started reading One Piece in the first place. What got me hooked was the world building and characters like Whitebeard, Kaido, the admirals, Mihawk, Dragon. Yeah, I got hooked by these characters that rarely show up, that's how it is.