Its funny that people try and act like Oda could have gone that much faster when he's literally been offscreening moments and juggling 70+ characters within that timespan.
When I say "setup", I don't mean the shit you 13 year old's slog through to get through the "action" beats of an arc. Nearly all of these chapters have been story heavy. Its like people actually wanted Luffy vs. Kaido in chapter 923 and for it to last 80 chapters instead of an actual arc story lmao. The "setup" I'm talking about is all necessary to make the story flow normally.
Don't compare me to a reddit apologist, that pretty insulting.