In full honesty, I don’t even care about people claiming Shanks isn’t a swordsman / Shanks > Mihawk, by itself.
But at least have the balls to admit that no twisting of definitions, nuanced terminology, or technicalities will be what makes it true.
I would rather you just claim that Oda will make whatever he wants happen without caring for the rules or statements that he’s put forth, because I genuinely think it’s a much better argument. And it quite honestly tracks with what Oda has done and said in recent years.