Speaking of bad injuries, arc stakes and strawhat involvement, I've come to hope for at least one of these two things to happen regarding Elbaf: one of the SH being seriously injured/in danger coming out of Egghead,and/or Luffy sitting the arc out.
I don't care if an x% of the crew is given something to do or someone to beat up to cover page space, I want them to matter, the story was supposed to be about them, not featuring them in the medium-to-back- ground. If 10 people is too much to juggle, fine, let's keep one of two of them out of the picture, but then have the others to something about or because of that. We had the main cast running errands for others since the 2 year timeskip, passively going along whatever tantrum the arc princess was wailing about, I think we can stomach them actually act at least once again before the curtain falls.
One of them being in actual danger is a maybe drastic but certainly effective call to action.
And I'm sorry, but as long as we have omnipotent bugs bunny jesus along,.wiping the floor with the top honchos of the world power scaling without breaking a sweat, no matter how visually entertaining his powers are (a lot, by the way), it's just boring. Either put a cap on G5 availability, or remove Nika from the picture untill the final confrontation.
I know I'm in the smallest of minorities here, but right now I might just forget to come back for the next chapter in two weeks.