Because they keep coming up with original dogshit written plot out of their ass. And it never succeeds except once (G-8 Arc) as they’re not Oda.
if they just sticked to adapting the cover story pages from the Manga, that would be better, since its actual canon material anyway.
The Germa cover story for example is really important right now, because it shows us how Pudding would get captured on BB’s ship later when Law fights him in the anime.
Yeah, I actually wouldn't mind adapting the cover pages.
Sort of hope they do.
I've heard there was an interest in adapting them in Wano, so maybe we'll get a couple.
I think the Bege cover story and the Germa cover story are long enough to justify a filler arc(would still require a lot of fleshing out).
Maybe they could also cover the Jinbei cover story as well, since thats a pretty long one.
Again, ideally, filler arcs are sort of desired to be low priority.
Thats sort of why I have a preference for recap episodes. Recap episodes are just less production heavy.