There’s no way he WON’T play a major role in the final stretch...think what
@Sadistic Senpai is mostly saying is that Oda’s criminal underutilization of him to this point has rendered him largely redundant, just a bunch of noise like OOOOH HE’S POWERFUL AND MYSTERIOUS, which is fine for a while but gets tiresome after 20 or so years with virtually no payoff.