Remember how Kaido (born in the Vodka kingdom) was supposed to have all subordinates named after beverages (starting with Scotch, whom X Drake defeated pre-ts), to mirror BM's subordinates being named after food? Only for Oda to scrape everything and introduce the card game naming scheme, even though it had already been used for both Ace and Dofla's crew?
Yeah.
That's what these Xebec flashbacks are going to do: rewrite a lot of small details that no longer fit in Oda's reimagining of what's left telling of OP.
Buckle up for a big retcon.