I hate the fake tension also because he has done it a gazillion times already and every time there is a Pound who seems to get killed offpanel I can only rolly eyes, or actually I do not even care at this point cause he killed it off at this point for me. The worst for me was still chapter 900. It was a mile chapter (9 hundreds) Luffy had ravaged WCI, beaten BM's YC1 and YC3, humiliated her and with only half the crew. Then in that chapter BM become herself again, there was the wicked song and in the end the Thousand Sunny looked like it was destroyed. Everything made sense, Oda equalized all the shit the BM pirates had to take for the whole arc, now her role as an emperor, a terrible threat, was restored. But nope, it was all fake tension. The answer to Oda at that point was clear.