User blog comment:Blumenblatt/Robin's Strength/@comment-24850639-20161208190810/@comment-25270312-20161209040154

Exactly. Perhaps it's not even that her abilities are obselete but that they are rendered obselete by the relative little action Robin gets. Even with her pre-timeskip abilities, she should theoretically be more useful in the new world than she has been. I feel like Robin's personality and importance has been slipping away since Enies Lobby, and she mostly sits on the sidelines as the stoic crew mom. Obviously, it's entirely impossible for her to come back and feel important and powerful again... it just hasn't happened for hundreds of chapters.