User blog comment:Fliu/New Thoughts on the Whole Cake Island Arc/@comment-3507581-20171114173914

Wow, man... you sure outdid everyone in this Wiki when it comes to writing concise and detailed articles. And note I'm not being sarcastic; I'm talking from the heart.

It was already known that several factors would make this rescue operation anything but flawless. First, Luffy's crippling overspecialization in fighting (and on there, a crippling lack of measure when it comes to even prominent Yonko crew members); Bege's miscalculation about how much the KX Launcher would be (un)effective against Big Mom; and let's not forget the changing "five-minutes" alliances between the Big Mom Pirates and their allies, and some of the latter with the Straw Hats.

Also, some fans should have understood that "The Year of Sanji" wouldn't necesarily mean Sanji kicking asses here and there; rather, it'd mean to disclose Sanji's origins in a clearer light -as well as his moral codes in both women and cuisine- and to explain how does he know about the Devil Fruits (as he wanted to eat the Suke Suke no Mi and beat Absalom for snatching his chance). Of course, you should know most people would lose trust in their true friends when "those with power and resources" (such as Big Mom in this arc, as well as the World Government in the Enies Lobby Arc) threaten to hit at their loved ones when an opportunity opens; that said, you know the phrase, "the fortune of people is like a wheel, what is up now will be down eventually", so I do agree with you with Big Mom receiving her comeuppance sooner of later (like with Frieza twice in Dragon Ball).

The means of escape are narrowed to those you said, but let's see how Oda will apply either them of his own; you know him.