Oh shit, I totally rmmbr that conversation Luffy had with Bon Clay, when he said man you have a sick ass kicker on your crew that beat my ass
Mr2 had great plot relevance and assisted Luffy to Ivankov the Queen of Okama.
If you wanna take your W with Okama Island Sanji then feel free to.
By all means, tell us how Queen Ivankov and Sanji is a great plot connection.
Thank you for reminding me this fantastic Gag character tie in.
And as for your original statement. While you are right it doesn't matter where these villains are in the PoTS, it still matters that they
exist for the overall plot. You won't appreciate it because it doesn't matter for you and I can understand that.
But it's important for us because it builds that Luffy/Zoro duo parallelism through and through that Sanji dangerously lacks.