User blog comment:Keekian/Will OP be better if Luffy was smarter?/@comment-69.196.148.100-20170423133700/@comment-130.105.225.174-20170425153225

You're correct. It's pointless how a mere poisonous fish skin almost killed him even though the show practically made luffy immune to those kind of things. It's there so that they can show us how luffy meets sanji's family and stuff :/