I disagree, everyone see the portrayal from his prespective so you can't bring it as an argument.
For example, according to Sanji's portrayal he must not be even close to zoro in term of strength, he's a cook, we never see him training before or after time skip, his dream doesn't need to be stronger, However what we see and read in the manga is the complete opposite of that, we can see clearly that Sanji is not that far from zoro in terms of strength.
My point here is portrayal in argument isn't "significant and decisive" as you mentioned