Sorry i have to disagree , you're forgetting about Robin and Franky.
Franky searched for the Sunny as it is his duty as the shipwright to take care of the ship. By some mystery the sunny is unharmed but he met Den , which could be important for his character develepment. Robin went to search/get information about the porneglyph, which at some point will get really important in this arc , i'm sure of it.
Zoro had disadvantages/handicaps very often lets see
Zoro vs Cabaji : Buggy's second mate. Zoro defeats him, despite Cabaji hitting his wound several times.After that Zoro falls back asleep , because of his wound.
This is a handicap^^
Zoro vs Hatchan/Arlong : Zoro is still heavy wounded from the fight with mihawk and passed out several times , even arlong was thinking "how can he still be living with these injuries?! how can he even stand?! i have to kill him right here and right now i cant afford him to live"
This is a handicap^^
Zoro vs Daz Bones : Daz can change his entire body into steel - something that Zoro can't cut , which was a big disadvantage for him not to mention that he nearly died in that battle.
**This is no fucking handicap. And if yes EACH Sh had the same handicap. All fo them had to figure away to beat the special skills of their opponents.
Luffy had to figure out Croc's weakness and Croc >>>> Each of the rest
Sanji had to figure out Mr. 2 and had to avoid his swan shoes,
Usopp and Chopper were handicaped in the desert against a mole which was underground all the time and Mr 4
Nami couldn't touch the spiky women as well.**
zoro vs Ohm : the terrain is full of traps , his enemy posses haki and can keep him at range. and there were others interupting.
No handicap. If yes Luffy had even a bigger one against Eneru with the big golde bell around his arm. Same for Chopper. He had to avoid falling in the white sea against Gedatsu. So where is the big ass handicap
Zoro vs Aokiji : Zoro and all of the SH are helpless.
Right
Zoro vs Kuma : Zoro is totally exhausted he realize that neither him or anbody else of the SH posses the strenght to fight another monster enemy like him to save the others and his captain he is willing to sacrifice himself and makes a deal with Kuma , where he had to take all the pain of luffy which nearly killed him.
They would still lose after all. All SHs were weakened but even at full power they would have lost
Zoro vs Duval and his Gang : Zoro is still totally exhaust from all the demage his body took , Hatchan had his back because he nearly passed out. But nvm it was only a fodder fight.
LOL against Duval. He could fight them blind and still win. So I agree
Zoro vs Pacifista / Sentómaru / Kizaru : Zoro nearly passed out plenty of times till the point where Kizaru almost killed him if Rayleigh wouldnt have interrupted
Even if he would be at full strenght. Against Kizaru and Co they would be still owned
and now Zoro vs Hodi : hes underwater with limited air , he can only use two swords , there are more enemys which will most likly interrupt.
This is a handicap but it won't be the final fight. All people should kow that Zoro would kill Hodi on land
if you ask me the list is quite long and it could be that i've forgotten an fight ;]
So yeah i give this time him the point of having a handicap. But people are hyping his handicaps way to far… All other SHs had handicaps as well if you look at this like that... But no one mentions them. Even for Luffy.