Or people are just now realizing that Oda just wasn't that good of a writer. He uses the same tropes, same gags, and never really gives development, just half assed shit. Or stupid motivations. Ace had to die so we an have a time skip, But Luffy's still running headlong into things without giving himself perspectives of different outlooks. He's still not interested in the newspaper when it was that very thing that lead him to finding out about Ace's Execution, Whose to say someone he knows has that happen to him, is Oda just going to have another character tell him about? Lame, or he never even heard that was happening, or at least have some awareness to the outside world.
This is something that Oda's just not going to do as he doesn't work his characters into that sort of development, They're literally just all about a couple gags, and their dreams. It's quiet boring and because people keep giving Oda money to write drivel, He'll continue to do just that.