I agree with most of what you said, and definitely agree with the prediction. For Sanji, I would just say there was a cause-and-effect established. The stress of the raid suit triggered the dormant germa genes and so and so. And unlike Zoro, Sanji was pushed to his upper limits more often. (Bone break against Vergo's haki, beaten by Doflamingo compared to Zoro, who never had to use Asura until Wano).I'd say that's applicable to most strawhats. With luffy his absurdly massive powerups were just learning foresight (within one fight he went from losing easily to katakuri to barely winning), learning advanced armor haki (went from being one shot by kaido while not tickling him to surviving hits and his hits doing something) and then with conqueror haki (where he was just sort of on par with kaido). With Zoro there's an implication he already had advanced armor haki (not internal damage) and improved his control and output through enma. And then he unconsciously got cladding. With Sanji... He didn't do anything for about 4 arcs (fishman island, punk hazard, dressrosa, and most of wano) and then he activated mutation. Oda is just sort of skipping their haki milestones. Which wouldn't be all that interesting to see but at the same time seems plot-hole-ish. With the way things are going we will be simply off handedly told that zoro and sanji already have foresight and internal damage without any real buildup.
Ah, that is so classic Mashima. He loves pulling off these completely illogical moments and explaining them right in the middle of a fight—like Laxus not using his Red Lightning until now. It's totally like Mashima to drop a bit of comic relief between Elfman and Richard, casually chatting about how they forgot to give the books to Mira.Imo it doesn't matter if he forgot it or not. If she use it in the next chapter or in the next two chapters it will be strange. Simple because it doesn't make sense not to use it so far, especially because it makes her stronger, plus she would be able to use Daemons hax magic.
It would be cool if she will use new takeover forms like Daemons or Gates, etc. But it doesn't make much sense to wait for no reasons.
If she can use it, then why not yet? Why waiting? It makes it more stupid and more random if Mashima waits.
And if he just forgot, it would be not better. So anyway the whole situation is bad imo.
The best battles so far are still the ones aganst Earthbuild and Anchor and they are also stronger so far.
If both, Levia and Runner lose in the next chapter it would be more bad than what happened with Motherglare lol


