I mean that's one route, but the idea that monarchy replacing a monarchy doesn't lead to good for the people also doesn't work, since there's plenty of historical examples of monarchs replacing others and being good for the people. But I also don't believe Oda has yet explored such an scenario anyway.
Alabasta - Monarchy
Dressrosa - Monarchy
Wano - Monarchy
FMI - Monarchy
These are the ones we've really seen on panel that the SHs have gone to. And the issue in all of em was that the "good monarchs" ie, Riku/Cobra/Neptune/Shogun were replaced or taken over by evil men like Crocodile/Kaido/Doffy/Hody. So all the strawhats do is revert them back to their original states before the said evil took over and reinstalling the original authority of the country that was making the country propser. So what's the point of an overhaul in these, when the restoration works perfectly well. Even with the restoration you still get changes to the country's systems. IE, Wano becoming more progressive. Alabasta getting ministers like Koza. (Hmm idk if Riku made any changes, but he also didn't really need to & same for Neptune).
What Oda's focused on so far is the restoration of the original and saving them from an outside force that takes over via influence.
Alabasta -> Saved from the outside force of Crocodile and his influence
Dressrosa -> Saved from the outside force of Doflamingo and his insane influence
Wano -> Saved from the outside force of Kaido and his insane fluence
FMI -> Didn't have an outside influence, but more of a civil war scenario. Where it's the SHs helping the reigning monarchy quell the civil war.
The only ones who're completely overthrowing governments and replacing them with new ones, are the RA. And we have 0 idea on them and their process since Oda hasn't explored their ideals and workings yet. And for that we'll have to wait until end of the series, when they get more indepth exploration.
My point has less to do with the replacement of the government system being just or unjust, bad or good, but rather that its rather strange that there's no sign of discourse around whether changing how things are ran from the people will be beneficial or not, which makes these citizens seen more like robots rather than actual people. I'm not even saying that the people should want to completely overthrow the system, but just want even some tweaks to it that the people can get behind, like setting up representatives in the government or something even smaller than that.
There's was the Drum Kingdom where Wapol, who was the natural successor of his father, ruined the kingdom by being short-sighted, a coward, and selfish. He killed all the doctors that weren't the 20 best because reasond, ran the kingdom with an iron grasp, and took all the soldiers and doctors when his country was invaded by the Blackbeard Pirates, leaving his people high and dry. Despite this there were no talks of governmental changes amongst the people though this would be the perfect time as Drum Kingdom is an example of a legitmate good monarchy can suddenly change to a legitimate bad monarchy just from a change of the King. Yes it got a good king again, but what's not to say he'll be replaced with someone like Wapol when he passes?
Speaking of kingdoms I realized that the likely reason that pretty much every government is either a Kingdom or a Dynasty is because it's the easiest one for Oda to write as they're less complicated as a system than something like a republic, and coincidentally every governmental person the Straw Hats had helped were perfectly good people that wouldn't cause unforseen consequences that would be indirectly the Straw Hats' fault.
As for the Revolutionaries I honestly find them godawful as Luffy and the Straw Hats, who's been doing this shit for less than a year, made a more impressive impact on freeing the people from unjust tyranny than Dragon did. It's so bad for Dragon that Sabo quickly overtook Dragon's mantle as the most important figure of the Revolutionaries to the public's eye, which is rather peculiar to say the least. Some quick explanation of the Revolutionaries' exploits is rather lazy as instead of seeing the build up happening naturally it'll likely be exposited to us. Also the Revolutionaries only have a problem with the World Government, not all bad governments as a whole so yea.
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Looool as if crocodile Doffy etc care if they have to remove a king or president to get what they want
You know? I find it quite odd how no one in the story, including those in power, tries to questions how individuals like Doffy and Crocodile can be stronger than a nation's whole army, which only makes it more obvious how artificial the world is. And the discussions about the government doesn't have to be about overthrowing, but can be about the comparatively less grand things like trying to fix the obvious problem that the military force of the government are less than prepared for an attack by maniacal individuals. It rather perplexing on how lax the people are about their situation when you think about it. Almost like they weren't written to have brains or something.
