They aren't, he's clearly a Jinbe parallel, they already said so. They know that Sanji and Zoro are BOTH a Rayleigh parallel. Why do you accuse them without understanding?.
I said this before but I lowkey a lot of the no. 2 parallel both zoro and sanji. Like killer, king, beckman, etc
Zoro is still the number two and Sanji but still. The strawhats crew structure is very unique. The problem is a lot of zoro stans want him to be just as important as actual vice captain character within the crew when that’s never going to happen. Despite being the strongest subordinate he’s just as important as the rest of the strawhats
I don't support that anymore. Mihawk isn't big enough for Oda to feed Sengoku to him, even a nerfed Sengoku would be too much.
I think he’ll end up feeding sengoku to Blackbeard while giving mihawk and crocodile a meaningless clash that leads nowhere with fujitora and smoker
That way we get some Blackbeard hype + parallel to kuzan fighting garp + a way to remove sengoku from the story at least temporarily with the bbp. The biggest advocates against the warlords at least get a chance to fight them before shanks saves them