Agree with you.
This arc, until the the last part (from the centipede fight onwards) has been really bad and disconnected from the rest of the story thematically.
I just hope the rest of the story returns to the roots of what OPM is supposed to be.
Exactly I see mfs claiming it as greatest story right now and if reason is asked they say art.
Thr art is still peak but the story line is literally a cheap fanfiction.
The massive powercreep would have been good if this was final arc but people like flashy attack and all they think is this feats make Saitama stronger than Goku so they swallow everything.
Murata crammed so much character this arc.
Also he literally revived Genos throgh time travel. I was hearing mf saying in chap 165 this is real stake and unlike other shonen he was not coming back.
But I didn't hear any backlash in Tl.
Time travel was so little in stroy and still it's been accepted without beat.
Even if in OP one has time travel fruit people would fuck Oda if he revived Oden that way. Even Oden fake out im 1007 by Kanjuro fucked tjr community. Any shonen doing this trope would get fucked.
But since this series got am excellent art. Mfs only seem to look at picture and not story.