User blog comment:AYET/The worth of the Shichibukai to the Marines/@comment-3425840-20130530013138/@comment-6920514-20130530141542

@AYET I agree completely. If they were ready to be admirals at the time of the war they already would have that's why I was heavily factoring in whatever might have happened during the timeskip

@Soul That's a great point that I admittedly overlooked. Like you said a devil fruit could still change that or perhaps some new weaponry in the form of cybornetic alterations like Franky's upgrades but definitely past the point of just reaching their physical prime.