You have to master that phase of denial.
It is the Wano endgame (and no, I don't like it either).
Here is what I wrote in the waiting room yesterday (concerning the people still believing the raid will fail):
"I really like Morj, but I think he and a lot of guys here vastly overestimate Oda (to be more precise: the complexity of OP).
It's a standard shonen manga, nothing more.
Oda is applying the same old arc structure he has used for 20+ years here:
1. Arrive at the new island.
2. Split up, have some short adventures, meet the locals and learn about the problems on the island.
3. Face the enemies for the first time and suffer some kind of "defeat".
4. Flashback about some local hero.
5. Rebound and regroup, preparing to go for the final battle.
6. Some big overlaying threat that threatens to kill the entire island is introduced (nuke in Alabasta, Advent of Thunder in Skypiea, Buster Call in EL, Shinokuni in PH, Birdcage in DR, Onigashima dropping down in Wano etc.)
7. Final fights are being set up.
8. SH crew beats their opponents.
9. Luffy beats the main villain in a long fight, island-wide threat is banned in the last second.
10. Everyone regenerates, then they celebrate and leave the island.
It has been the exact same thing here in Wano.
This isn't some great or complex work of literature.
It's a fucking shonen manga and Oda isn't Shakespeare or GRRM. He is using his usual arc blueprint once again - the raid is going through.
If you like that rather "simplistic" writing style or not is written on a different piece of paper ... "
that's why Oda likes kata more while Marco and Calamities are treated like irrelevant side characters whom Oda can offscreen the majority of their battles
