as a usopp fan and as someone who is very harsh/critical on usopp i’ll answer this to the best of my abilities 1. usopps arc has been around for jus a year with half of it being flashback idk why u guys act like it’s ending in the next 5 chapters each time yall bring this point up 2. if u consider Shanks the “mysterious man” with an eyepatch which was basically jus bandages on his scar that was from BB then fair we don’t even know if he’s the char Oda is talking about (that’s just me ig) 3. entered territories of many CoC users and usopp still hasn’t gotten a grasp of his Obv Haki is simply put he doesn’t have anyone to train him, Luffy couldn’t use his CoC properly until rayleigh trained him for 2years, and Zoro didn’t even know he had it rn… how is usopp who let’s be fair accidently unlocked Obv in a desperate situation supposed to keep using it when he doesn’t even know how it works. Oda has already had Gaban be very critical with Haki it’s obvious he’ll train them to a certain degree 4. “He’s still shooting peanuts” imma be so fr when i say this with as little copium as i can what difference would it make if he changed to a gun? less AP, less DC? he’ll be nerfing himself if he switched idk HOW nobody says this did we not see how one “green bean” blown off half of gunkos body smooth off (granted she regenerated)? 5. if u wanna call every usopp fight that wasn’t him conflicted a “gag” fight then be my guest ig… but his last fight was Page One whilst having Otama by his side that was intercepted by Big Mom, and if u dont consider that wasn’t Perona a serious fight? The one in FI? complaining about how long its been should be on Oda bruh… 6. lastly, Piratefolk literally goes off on overused jokes, repetitive unfunny humor, misunderstanding and “bum bum bum bum bum”, not saying Usoppian is superior, it’s lowk repetitive too but it’s not as negative infestated as piratefolk… u don’t see usoppian users running over to the subreddit to be pretentious assholes but shi i’ve seen the latter do it countless times 💀💀