On this note, I can't believe arcs were like a quarter to a third of Wanos length so far?
They were so short by comparison but would feel fairly longer these days with the mandatory regular breaks though.
Those arcs also had a lot of fights, great world building and lore, the long missed sense of adventure, character moments, development and lots of excellent fights and so on.
In arcs MUCH shorter than Dressrosa, WCI and now Wano. I knew post TS would have more meatier arcs naturally but the pacing has been absolutely awful, so much padding and offscreening of things we want to see but way too many panels, pages and even chapters spent on pointless characters, extremely long chases, trivial moments etc.
The crew were seperated for 2 years in story and then kept getting seperated shortly after they reunited drastically for literal years IRL for us.
Not to mention the literal hundreds of new characters too.
As much as I love certain things post ts including some chapters lately, including this one ofc, theres a lot of seriously poor and questionable decisions being made for OP post TS.