Not gonna lie but on the chapter where they clashed their ultimate moves(the final clash) I really thought katakuri was gonna win because that time I thought luffy can just run away with sanji's help if he's defeated since the ultimate goal in whole cake arc was to rescue sanji then run away, not to bring down big mom and his officers so I really thought it's okay if luffy can't defeat him, he can return after wano but NO it didn't happen. Katakuri was portrayed as a man who was never defeated in a battle and is very strong, and in fact his strength in the crew is only below his yonko mother. Still Im glad we were introduced a fine character like kata and have him as a rival /friend to luffy (similar to how whitebeard was to roger) but I still wished he wasn't defeated so early in the series.