So this will be my last comment on Carrot until she does nothing in the story again, i will then come back to bash this useless filler character some more. In theory i'm suppose to end your life with my response but i doubt it will cause Carrot fans are beyond fake.
Here we go, Carrot as a character is completely irrelevant. My basis for that? Important characters affect the plot in meaningful ways. Hence if you remove Carrot from the story nothing changes. For example, the scene where Carrot disabled Daifuku's fleet in Sulong form, arguably Carrot's most notorious moment, can be easily replaced by Jinbei going in her stead and prior to going underwater he can give a set of directives to Nami on where to stirr the ship, at which interval and identifying the sea currents just like Nami pointed out where the wind was coming from and to. Finally Nami can take the helm of the Sunny as she's a brilliant navigator. How?
In story evidence establish by indirect proof that Nami can helm a ship as she took Merry to Arlong Park on her own.
Indirect proof : Instead of showing that the conclusion to be proved is true, you show that all of the alternatives are false. To do this, you must assume the negation of the statement to be proved. Then, deductive reasoning will lead to a contradiction: two statements that cannot both be true.
The Contradiction - Statement 1 - Nami can't helm Merry - statement 2 - Nami sailed Merry to Arlong Park
Now how Carrot for Nakama theories are all fake and contrived? Carrot being with the Strawhats is not an argument for her to join, why? It's an association fallacy
Association fallacy : An association fallacy is an informal inductive fallacy of the hasty generalization or red herring type and which asserts, by irrelevant association and often by appeal to emotion, that qualities of one thing are inherently qualities of another. Two types of association fallacies are sometimes referred to as guilt by association and honor by association.
Carrot is guilty of becoming the next Strawhat female because she's with them(association). That's a false premise and non argument.
I hope you read the story, so let me refute what you just said:
Carrot is a character that is a complete anomaly in the story. She travels with the crew for unknown reasons outside the sake of adventure. Her cause and actions throughout Whole Cake Island were completely independent from the arc at hand, and it will be so again now that we're in Wano, so it raises awareness that her inclusion among the crew is unusual as most tag-a-long characters tend to be plot relevant, as was the case with Pedro and Pekoms. Oda wouldn't add her for no reason, especially with strictly the Straw Hat crew, and the simple fact you can't justify that outside of bias proves that.
Also, steering the ship to Cocoyashi Village is never shown. Nami uses the sail winds to move, never the wheel. This has been shown since her introduction in the series. Since you are making an implication without showing evidence, that falls into head canon territory once again.
Your alternative takes are false because nowhere in the narrative indicates that the scenario you proposed was probable in ANY circumstance outside of what you construed because what you did was literally change plot elements to make your case reasonable when that was outside the realm of possibility. As was posted numerous times. All those times, you ignored. Jinbe can take less time to disable the fleet? Nami can steer the ship as Big Mom approaches when it was Jinbe who gave them the head start? Jinbe can relay information last minute as Daifuku was going to attack? Nami can both navigate AND steer? Where is the proof from the story that you can show instead of pulling things from your head canon? It's a suspension of disbelief because in the story, that wouldn't make sense. Henceforth, you're providing a scenario that is completely ignoring the narrative for the sake of proving a point.
Carrot, meanwhile, is still with the Straw Hats, despite having no reason to follow them over her military leader Shishilian. That would raise questions as to what narrative purpose there is for her involvement. However, you propose that her presence and mere association with the crew is false and irrelevant despite the fact Oda has never done so with a character that has sailed with the Straw Hats. Especially for as long as she has. You are pulling literary terms that don't, once again, have basis, when you ignore the structure that has been shown in the series. You'd rather make a contrived, hypothetical scenario than view the plot as it is.
Instead of making hypothetical claims, how about you actually use the narrative? Instead of making things up, back your claims with what is shown? Instead of making bias remarks, how about you state something objective? Because all you're doing is pulling up information and stating things without any real basis, as I've said many times. I can pull up the list of things you have said wrong during this entire conversation and interpretations of events you construed that made absolutely no sense in the narrative. How about you read One Piece again? Instead of reading up to 40-60 chapters of seeing Nami on a boat and using that as an excuse that she replicate Jinbe's skill to steer the Sunny when she has, as I quote, "never has touched the wheel this entire story," how about making logical claims? It will fare you better in the long run than hypothetical "options."
And don't worry, by the time you come back, there'll be more to talk about. I'll wait.