User blog comment:HanataSanchou/Chapter 919: Back To The Future/@comment-28995593-20181006223604/@comment-24850639-20181010162006

How so? I don't think it would hurt the series at all to have an epilogue that gives a brief look at where/how the people we've met along the way ended up. It's kinda what the "From the Decks of The World" cover arcs, it's showing how people have been doing since their last encounter with Luffy. In fact, I'd go so far as to say it'd be detrimental at this point to not have this epilogue, when Luffy will have done something way more significant than the things that earned him new bounties up until that point. It's not like its gonna be like Naruto where it's just couple after couple getting married, but people are gonna naturally move on to the next phase of their lives.