User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Was the Dressrosa Arc Good or Bad?/@comment-24.138.142.79-20151020202428

I don't think anyone should be allowed to complain about the pacing until they read the whole thing in one go. Or at least more than one chapter at a time.

Oda doesn't give a shit about how a single chapter seems to flow when compared to how the arc flows overall; at 800+ chapters, you probably should have guessed this by now, but  he's in this for the long haul. So step back and appreciate the scope of the arc rather than judging it by your blue balls on a hiatus week. Fight scenes don't stop in the middle when you've got all the chapters in your hand at once; that dragging feeling is only in real time and not in story time.