Interesting.
How strawhats used to be consider best group of friends in manga and now opinion is changing.
In last one year only 8-10 chapters were focused on Strawhats and most of them was Kizaru vs Luffy or Bonney crying for Kuma.
It is interesting that fans of Sanji and Franky is hyping bare minimum thing because most of the fans have accepted that Oda will only give others strawhats this much....
Many people consider Marineford saga best because of sales but that is wrong.
Highest per volume sales was during Fishmen island and reason of increase of sales was strong world not Marineford.
Zou-WCI was best part of post-timeskip for me at least.
We could discuss about the amount of characters among the protagonists, but saying they make it worse is an extremely dumb take.
The whole logic behind popularity pools shows that pretty clearly for instance lol
Like, 1 Main character and 9 secondary characters in the same crew, needing to do shit, get screentime and overall development seems pretty hard to achieve without having to make some sacrifices.