User blog comment:Martialmaniac/How To Steal Your Devil Fruit/@comment-10543621-20150515034748/@comment-10543621-20150517065511

Well, I like the idea of it having to be a specific fruit. I guess that's makes it slightly more interesting. Still, although it's like you said, there are still several requirements to fulfil even if the fruit simply enters the nearest compatible fruit, such as actually killing the previous wielder, I still don't quite like the idea of it just being the nearest one.

If the DF simply reincarnates into the nearest compatible fruit, that would mean that DF users are probably incredibly recyclable. As long as a DF user doesn't die in some god-forsaken desolated place, chances of people witnessing his/her death finding the fruit nearby are pretty high. That kinda makes the whole 'difficult to find' point of DFs become a bit less significant. I just feel that this makes DFs emerge and pass on much quicker. Like the majority of DFs would simply be on trees or fruit baskets or fruit sellers who happened to be nearby a dying DF user.

Then again, I guess this also kinda makes sense why it was said that DF users become increasingly common in the Grandline as opposed to the Blues since most DF users are probably gonna be dying somewhere in the Grandline.