I have been telling people for literally well over a decade that if they, honest to god, think the five old guys in charge of THE big bad organization of the setting are going to be non-combatans or weak? Listen, you are either pushing an agenda or you are legit just dumb to ever believe that. Oda loves his old guy hype at the end of the day, and betting against them was just silly.
To be fair, I sort of understimated them myself since, prior to Egghead, I assumed none were immotal, but I always had them above Admiral. Ever since Akainu got literally told word for word by Topman and Nusjuro, "What does the Marines repuation matter to us? You guys are merely the "public face" of the government." I thought no admiral, not even Akainu, was above them.
But people continued to cope and say "Robin, ages ago, said the Admirals were the strongest WG force!"
Well, Luffy sure as fuck seemed more worried about Saturn than Kizaru didnt he?
As soon as the Gorosei started to look like strong guys after all? I was then told they are devil fruit/hax merchants, and once you found out their immortality's weakness, they would get low diffed.
Well, they are now confirmed strong haki users; its confirmed "Top 1 WUFFY!" has to run away from them; they are also all either awakened devil frutis users or just straight up demons themselves and if Nusjuro and Saturn are any indication with their ice and poision abilties all seem to have strong offensive capabilities too.
Anybody who ever said they were non-combatants is a clown, but if you were one coping these past few months and said they were merely YC level? You are no better, honestly. Both takes, thankfully, seem to be well and truly burried now.
They are THEM: