I'm not liking this arc tbh. It's the arc with the most revelations, with huge things happening like Luffy fighting Kizaru, Lucci appearing again and the Goroseis and the authority finally appearing, Vegapunk being shown... If I knew OP would be at this point when I was like, in 2015, I'd like to jump straight to this year... But it just seems underwhelming and not the same hype and intensity I expected for a conflict of that scale. May be because I've changed, like, but I think Oda is burnt out. He has already worked so hard, his health may be compromised after all those years... And it shows... in what should be big battles being depicted in a so quick and fast pacing way, like Garp vs Aokiji and the whole rescue of Koby arc, Luffy battling Kizaru being this puny thing, even Luffy vs Kaido, which at least Oda showed through many and many chapters, was kinda underwhelming to me. The last battle I felt was properly and well shown was Luffy vs Doflamingo, despite the pacing of Dressrosa being dragged out. Outside of it, too many things and new things happening, but at a too quick pacing. It may be a change of my perspective, but to me it seems like Oda can't make it as intense and epic as Marineford despite the scales and stakes being way bigger now. The period he was in before, freshier, with more ideas, made epic arcs whose stakes were lower than these ones, like CP9 and Marineford way more epic and memorable than the last two arcs or even Dressrosa, despite having liked the Luffy vs Dofla depiction. But it just isn't the same to me, that's a thing with long series, I think it's too hard to keep the same level of epicness and excitement for too long, both from a physical and mental tiredness and that the ideas and thoughts, creativity, gets limited after a while.