100% agree. I bought into I think Tekking on youtube's theory that the Wano samurai, pirates and mink would take over the Flower Capital first and Onigashima would be an all out war instead of an ambush. It really is a shame because I think King and Queen are fine for what they were created to be — foils to Zoro/Sanji and good challenges — but they could've been a lot better. Untapped potential IMO.
Lmfao... Momo still is only used as a means to stop this arc's birdcage. I can't say I find him endearing at all, he's a bad take on Vivi.
Momoron is a bad character in general, imo. A brat who is obviously not up to the challenge and does not try to be either before 15 chapters ago.
King should have been made the main enforcer of Wano and had several near-encounters with Zoro in Act 1 (where he could have been utilized to order the attack by Hawkins) and Act 2 (to protect Orochi in Yasuie execution instead of the OOC Denjiro & lengthening the trite Udon plot) because Zoro killed the magistrar, while Cook and his invisibility should have been utilized for Luffy breaking out of Udon and to give him a build-up with Queen.
Jinbei should also have been introduced to Wano earlier to pit him against Jack in some capacity in Act 2.
Have Yasuei's execution be the day Orochi and the Oniwabanshu die to an attack by most of the SHs, A9, and the alliance, who then seize the capital, while Udon falls due to Big Mom's attack and Luffy breaking out. At the same time, Jinbei should have swam underneath Mama Chanter all along and secretly sneaked in to Wano, while Kaido ordered Jack to help up stopping the chaos in Wano, forcing Jinbei to down his fleet and set up Jinbei vs Jack later.
With the capital, Udon, and the Mammoth fleet going down, Kaido orders his crew to regroup in Onigashima before outright declaring a war, giving the SHs and all of Wano several days to surrender or die. This sets up the Wano-Onigashima war.
And it should have been Yamato instead of Kin and Momo whom we met back in PH, imo.