I used to think the same, but Oda gave Zoro fire with Foxfire style and some air mobility with Clear Lance. Sanji, on the other hand, got nothing, despite the fact that Sanji having rankyaku makes more sense than Zoro using fire or propelling himself in air.
Well, Sanji can also do some good swordsmanship like Zoro.
His style of precision even is more unique than most swordsman who is just strength based (Mihawk Zoro) or speed based (Brook).
Sanji has also been seen advising Luffy like Zoro.
Even he's actually the first one who correct Luffy during W7 Usopp's scene.
So the balancing is also kinda still apply.
1 - Again you making up things I never said only to have an argument
2 - No it is not. If your additional information goes against your previous information this is not a development. LOL. His second flashback didn't explained a shit about his liking of cooking and attitude towards woman. In the end he just like to cook because he likes. Nothing deeper here. And his attitude towards woman was taught by Zeff. He was even fine with beating his own sister to defend himself or to free himself. We had a lot of details about Sanji already. I don't recall him being afraid of spiders specially because I don't recall he ever bringing that up in current time. So like I said this is not a development.
3 - Not saying he doesn't care about woman now. But in this particular situation he showed that he doesn't. Which is very weird giving how intense he is about it and specially about Stussy.
Thanks for bringing Sanji saving Nami this just reinforces my point that in that particular scene he didn't acted like he should.
Again you are creating your own words to have an argument. Sanji doesn't have to simp towards Stussy. Lol. He just need to get enraged with Lucci hurting her or try to protect her. He doesn't even need to interact with Stussy or Lucci but when he was trapping Kaku if he said anything about that would already be enough. Like "I can't afford another of you hurting a lady" or something on those lines. We wouldn't even having this conversation.
1. That's because you started it without giving a clear topic on why Oda destroyed Sanji's character :
Why Sanji character was destroyed at WCI, again at Wano and now once more at Egghead?
There's so many possible aspects and you didn't say which one, that's why I had to guess one by one (Robin, invis, then WCI). I didn't making things up for you, but for me.
2. Well, then, that's on you. Just the fact that Oda make WCI about Sanji is already a character development for him.
We know the names of his families, kingdom, full name? Char dev
We know what happened to his mum? Char dev
We know about iron mask? Char dev
We know why Sanji is sensitive about Usopp feeling useless? Char dev
Just because you missed it or ignore it, doesn't mean it's not there.
3. I already gave a reasonable explanation : he got minimal panels/lines and the situation doesn't need him to do/say that.
Even his line is used to tell us that Kaku is being left out / ignored by Lucci. Not mention the other line is him asking a woman's permission to use her stuff.
You only want to see & accept one side of something is entirely on you.
The second thing is about redundancy. There is no need to spell things out when it's already obvious. If you get bothered by that one scene so much, when it doesn't actually mean what you want it to be, then it's just you who wants to find fault.
If that's the case, there's endless thing you can find fault on, like why Sanji doesn't comment on Beast Pirates wasting food during the raid for example.
