Agreed. Wano was ruined because Lolda wanted to have his cake and ate it, too, and it should be fine to point this out. :cheers:
Wanted us to believe Cook is YC2 level, but spent a decade making him a jobber.
Wanted us to care for Momoron, Otameh, the Scrubbards, and the Wanonese, but made them endlessly uninteresting and not fun to cheer for.
Wanted us to care for Oden, but put him on an unbelievable pedestal and instead made us wonder why top tiers worship this Gary Stu.
Wanted us to care for Yamato, but introduced her way too late in the game.
Wanted us to take Beast Pirates as threats, but spent zero efforts building them as a crew.
Wanted us to take King as an actual Yonko firstmate, but made him spend the arc on the background.
Wanted us to take Queen as reverse Vegapunk, but made him incompetent as hell.
Wanted us to take Jack seriously, but lolnoped him out of the story.
Wanted us to take the SHs as a Yonko crew, but one third of them did not even have a legit combat win in the arc.
Wanted us to take Law and Kidd as Yonko level fighters, but did not give them established PUs or credentials aside from "posing as Luffy's rivals".
Wanted us to take Meme and her crew as legit threats, but treated them as clowns.
Wanted us to take Crydo as WSC, but instead wrote him as an Oden simp with inconsistent charaterization and zero body count.
Wanted us to embrace Nika, but spent 5 chapters building it up and threw away the 25-year old Gomu Gomu no Mi we all have come to know and love.
Lastly, wanted us to be in awe of the Samurais, but literally cancelled every Zoro plotline to end the arc.
Wano is a shitshow of epic proportions and this is factual.