User blog comment:Meganoide/The seven routes of the Grand Line, part one/@comment-3279487-20110902163021

Yeah, most of the adversities the straw hats faced were probably been avoided by another crew, but I don't think you can easy travel in the grand line, though. There are some common dangers for every routes:
 * the weather, sailing it's not always easy. If it wasn't for Nami, the straw hats would have been crashed by a cyclone (before reaching Drum)
 * the islands: for what we have seen, most of the island of paradise aren't so dangerous places themselves, though islands like Little Garden are basically a "game over" for most of the crews.
 * marines: there are strong marines who patrol the grand line, the crew almost get caught by Hine, if Mr. 2 would have not act as decoy.
 * other enemies: other pirates or bounty hunters are always a possible thread. There are also the shichibukai, if you think about it Mihawk wiped out Creek's armada only because they disturbed his nap, the kujas regulary attack other ships, Moriah take the shadows of the pirates that came across and the others are still dangerous thread.

What are you saying it's true, the straw hats had an hard time, another crew wouldn't have gone through all that, but the straw hats are really strong, normal pirates would have probably meet an end like Creek or the Rumbar Pirates.

I also think that the new world is a feared place because basically all the dangers I said above are further increase, even the islands are dangerous themselves (islands on fire, thunder rain...) not counting the strongest enemies in the world.