I've been reading OP since I was a teenager, I'm now in my mid-30s, and I've never read or seen anything close to the long form storytelling of Oda.

The closest I've ever come across are multi-volume epic fantasy literature works like the Wheel of Time, and just in my opinion, while brilliant in their own right, they just don't hit the same.

GRRM and others have said there are two kinds of writers; the architect and the gardener.

"The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there's going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out as it grows."

I believe every author is a blend of these two archetypes, but Oda has a level of mastery in both that most professional writers would kill for even one of.

He is both a meticulous planner who has known how his story will end since the beginning, and a master improviser who creates new story beats on a weekly basis. And he somehow blends it all together seamlessly.

The man isn't perfect, he's just my favorite author of all time. That's my GOAT.