Everything was hypothetical. It was all set up for an "in case shit happens" scenario.
They kept getting investigated, but nothing came about it.
Eliminating York would have done nothing but prove her accusations to the World Government.
So until they were caught dead to rights, they weren't pulling the trigger on anything.
Everything is always hypothetical, so that excuse doesn’t work.
They were already caught dead to rights when they heard York report to the WG that they were researching the forbidden info.
That’s why the WG sent CP0 to eliminate them anyway.
There’s absolutely no excuse to not eliminate York. Shaka & Pythagoras died because of that. They were delayed from escaping because of her, and the broadcast was also interrupted.
The broadcast could have been done before any WG forces had any hope of stopping it
and the Vegapunk’s could have also escaped without endangering so many other people’s lives.
Only Bonney & the Strawhats’ arrival salvaged things. Bonney could have been killed by Pacifista without ever knowing that she had ultimate command of them because of Vegapunk’s idiotic plan.
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You're missing a key factor here. Vegapunk dying by the WGs hands is what makes it believable.
People are going to question it, but when they find out Vegapunk was killed over the information, then it makes it real.
If he was to deliver that message and then dip, the WG can just paint him a man who lost his mind, and call the whole thing false.
They can't cover up the truth, when a person died to deliver the message. They can try, but that one is a hard sell when Vegapunk tells everyone, he's going to be killed for this, and that's exactly what happens.
Except Vegapunk didn’t even implicate the WG in his death with the broadcast, so that excuse doesn’t work. Even now some already assume that it was the pirates who killed him instead.
If Vegapunk remains alive then he can fight any attempts at misinformation by himself.
Lulusia being destroyed and the worldwide sea quakes already make it a real as it needs to be.
Vegapunk could point to the arrest warrants sent out for him, or even have the CP0 agent Stussy attest to the assassination attempt.
He could do so much more to combat the WG alive…and even if he wanted to die he could do so by himself and let all the other Satellites escape and everyone else he roped into the mess like Sentomaru and the residents of Egghead.
There’s no salvaging this mess. It’s plain stupid from every single angle.