The whole death issue at least for me stems from Oda’s reputation to bring characters back from what should be impossible to live through situations
Like in any other series Izo and Ashura’s deaths may have been fine... but we’re reading One Piece
We thought Pound got his head chopped off and Oda randomly brought him back in a cover story. There are people that still believe Pedro is alive and I can’t say I blame them
It’s funny cause it really feels like Oda managed to give his whole audience fake out death PTSD. Nobody believes him when he actually tries to kill off a character