User blog comment:Fliu/Chapter 957: More Info on Rocks/@comment-43942467-20190928000009/@comment-118.67.216.173-20191001051229

The warlords played a vital role in diminishing the lowly startup pirates. Just go back to the east blue arc where mihawk appears to have been hunting them down. The age of the worst generation is not known for powerful individuals but the mass amount of pirates that have emerged. Warlords were a key aspect in keeping them down. Hence the purpose of the WarLords aren't fully invalid.