User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 898: No One Expects the Germa Inquisition/@comment-28995593-20180316082336/@comment-2125188-20180316165128

I think people are comparing this arc to Arlong Park and Enies Lobby too much. While there are similarities, where the main objective is to rescue a crew member, structurally Wholecake Island is very different. And what I mean by that is, this arc isn't a battle arc, where we see each member fight one-on-one against a group that are similar in strength and size (well at in terms of number key members). In this arc they're trying to escape from a Yonko and hundreds of enemies. Here, there's hardly any time for one-on-one fights when you're dealing with that many enemies. And honestly, aside from the mirror world, I don't think there is really any place where Sanji could have a one-on-one battle without dozens of enemies trying to interfere. So there doesn't seem to be any time or place for any one-on-one battles aside from the mirror world (which won't happen again this arc). And even if the everyone sits back and let's Sanji has his fight, Sanji would surely need rescuing again after that, and at that point it would just be repetitive and dragged out far too long.