That's because Luffy spending 10 chapters going through obstacles to reach the rooftop is way more realistic than him making it to the rooftop in a single chapter, and it's used to setup up future plotpoints.
So let's say the Scabbards and Kaido are on the roof, and Luffy, Zoro, Law, Kidd and Killer are on their way up there. Oda spends 2-3 chapters focusing on just the Scabbards vs Kaido and nothing else. Then at the end of it all, the Supernovas make it to the roof, and save the scabbards.
Oda then cuts away to the bottom floors and everyone is turning to Ice Oni's, Drake for some inexplicable reason is fighting with the alliance, Marco is now fighting against King and Queen out of the blue, Yamato for some reason is running around with Momonosuke, Sanji for some reason is caught by Black Maria, and Robin and Brook are there to free him.... etc... etc...
How did all of this happen? We wouldn't know if Oda didn't draw it. It would feel like the story is 100 percent focused on Luffy, and everything else going on in the arc means fuck all. All that matters is Luffy wanted to get to the roof, and now he's there.
This applies to literally everything else people are bitching about in terms of pacing. People just want Oda to cutout segments of the story that explain how certain events are coming to be, in favor of everyone just teleporting all over the places, and nobody having a clue as to what the fuck is going on.
Yeah, Oda might extend some of this stuff more than necessary sometimes, but at the end of the day, when all is said and done, it makes the story feel much more complete. The reason why there is no issues with it for preskip, is because almost everyone read/watched preskip after the arcs were fully completed. Of course there is no issue when you don't have to wait a full week to get to the next chapter.
But people are 100 percent fooling themselves if they think Oda wasn't doing this preskip. Even Fishman Island and Punk Hazard gets the same "pacing issues" complaints, and they were less chapters than Alabasta, Skypiea, and both Water 7 and Enies Lobby, which those arcs crammed way more fluff material in them than Fishman Island and Punk Hazard did.
It isn't a "pacing issue", it's a "I'm too impatient to read a manga week to week, so let me bitch about it" issue.
So let's say the Scabbards and Kaido are on the roof, and Luffy, Zoro, Law, Kidd and Killer are on their way up there. Oda spends 2-3 chapters focusing on just the Scabbards vs Kaido and nothing else. Then at the end of it all, the Supernovas make it to the roof, and save the scabbards.
Oda then cuts away to the bottom floors and everyone is turning to Ice Oni's, Drake for some inexplicable reason is fighting with the alliance, Marco is now fighting against King and Queen out of the blue, Yamato for some reason is running around with Momonosuke, Sanji for some reason is caught by Black Maria, and Robin and Brook are there to free him.... etc... etc...
How did all of this happen? We wouldn't know if Oda didn't draw it. It would feel like the story is 100 percent focused on Luffy, and everything else going on in the arc means fuck all. All that matters is Luffy wanted to get to the roof, and now he's there.
This applies to literally everything else people are bitching about in terms of pacing. People just want Oda to cutout segments of the story that explain how certain events are coming to be, in favor of everyone just teleporting all over the places, and nobody having a clue as to what the fuck is going on.
Yeah, Oda might extend some of this stuff more than necessary sometimes, but at the end of the day, when all is said and done, it makes the story feel much more complete. The reason why there is no issues with it for preskip, is because almost everyone read/watched preskip after the arcs were fully completed. Of course there is no issue when you don't have to wait a full week to get to the next chapter.
But people are 100 percent fooling themselves if they think Oda wasn't doing this preskip. Even Fishman Island and Punk Hazard gets the same "pacing issues" complaints, and they were less chapters than Alabasta, Skypiea, and both Water 7 and Enies Lobby, which those arcs crammed way more fluff material in them than Fishman Island and Punk Hazard did.
It isn't a "pacing issue", it's a "I'm too impatient to read a manga week to week, so let me bitch about it" issue.
