To me the whole situation seems like a huge bait and switch. If you look at Law, he got a lot of focus and Ws ever since Punk Hazard, which set him up to take his major loss against Blackbeard.
Kid has constantly been taking nothing but Ls since post skip began. So much so, that it came as absolutely zero surprise to most of the people that he lost to Shanks the way he did.
For someone to be so heavily L focused, despite being built as as a potential future rival of the Pirate King, to me it feels like something is going to give at some point, and his character progression is going to do a huge 180.
I've been following the series long enough to know better than to not think Oda doesn't do things on purpose, and for a reason.
I could be wrong, but I just get this nagging feeling that everything Oda has put Kid through, is going to have some payoff at the end.