So....the lines from Kaido on page 4-5 seem like he may already have been using awakening the entire time. He describes it as the "body" catching up to the power itself, and I already can see that having been the case with BM and Kaido and the way they use their powers already (BM healing herself with souls and lifespan, Kaido having some odd hybrid forums)
It's good to have confirmation I guess if he never truly does transform into something else. I DO expect some good final moves from him, but I'm a little less confident on awakening.
Yonko may casually use it, even Kata/Doffy who are used to it, but greener pirates like Kid/Law/Luffy are eating away at their strength because they are inexperienced at it.
Idk, we'll see lol. Just coping if it doesn't happen