h0kuten said:
There is nothing suggesting that it doesn't apply to the previous 5 years.
Nice strawman. You haven't provided anything saying it
does apply to the previous 5 years, so you instead just say nothing suggests it doesn't apply. The burden of proof rests on you. Prove it does apply to the previous 5 years, otherwise your argument is based off conjecture.
h0kuten said:
Anytime significant gains are made it's always established as to what degree and why.
That's arbitrary.
h0kuten said:
Summarily, Goku was looking for a way to get stronger, and only determined that the only possible solution was to merge with Vegeta. Training was useless at that point. Nothing infers it wasn't useless prior to that point either.
How is this any different from what you said above?
h0kuten said:
Also, writing is bad sometimes and it doesn't always make sense. Toriyama clearly doesn't care about consistency so why would he here.
Failing to see how this is relevant to the current discussion.