Oda really trying to make up for stupendously retconning Luffy’s fruit by having Kaido praise Roger and taking the focus away from the fact that Luffy was handed one of the most powerful fruits in the verse lol. Just makes Soyboy Nikka Luffy look worse.
Seems like this is the best opportunity to get Zoro involved as a non-DF user and get the final attack on Kaido over the capital