I'll level with all Usopp fans now: I fucking hate his pop green attacks. It's the laziest cop out for creativity I've ever seen. One arc he has a pop green for every scenario: you need to extinguish small fires? Poo green is here. Need to put people to sleep? Pop green. Need to devour someone? Pop green.
Yet in the next instant he will be bitching how he doesn't have anything in his arsenal to deal with some enemy.
Personally, Usopp should have stuck with his original moveset and arsenal + got one or two close combat moves for when shit gets tight.
Hell, maybe even a gun or some sharp projectiles to inflict damage. Or even kairoseki in Wano.
Tl,dr: fuck pop greens
That's exactly the criticism I've seek for him before lately and I completely agree. It's like Erza with her 100 armours or whatever. Even Luffys awakening somewhat imo.
I genuinely can't believe how much Oda fucked up Usopp. Such an extreme contrast to the amazing "Sniper, Deception and Endurance God" we had pre TS ironically and even comparing him to Dressrosa too, it's it's an extreme contrast alone.
Usopp has done nothing significant in Wano, in 150 chapters especially something good. Un-fucking-believable.
Elbaf has truly become my hyper mega giga super omega alpha beta sigma copium for him, if we even do get Elbaf and Oda doesn't royally fuck that up too.
How the fuck is this Usopp supposed to compare to Yasopp and Van Auger and even take them on?
Even Katakuri did more sniping than Usopp post TS I think!
Oda wanted a botanist for the crew originally, a separate character but now he seems to have made Usopp into it by force. Either he didn't know what to do with Usopp post TS or and really wanted that Botanist to be part of the crew.
He could have had someone like Carrot be the Botanist and have her join for that reason too then or another character.