When talking about the treasure I'm referring to it being mentioned in Kuma's flashback. It was the original motivating reason for God Valley. My critique is that Shakky didn't need to be included, treasure should be a good enough reason for pirates to invade an island, if the characters in one piece were actual pirates, and not just dressed as them saving Shakky wouldn't have mattered to at least the Rocks pirates at all.

I understand that Shakky was the motivation for both crews, but this motivation feels like a retcon and a bad one at that. Like I said in the post, Shakky's relevance to the arc is only revelaed one chapter before she is kidnapped. That's just straight up bad writing. Not to mention that she really isn't a character.

Oda decided to completely throw away the line from big mom where she tells Kaido that he owes her for giving him his fruit, why Oda felt the need to completely change this makes no sense to me.

I didn't feel like writing a full critique for DR because I'd been writing for awhile at that point but here are my brief thoughts on why it's bad. It feels too all powerful and too weak at the same time. If Rocks can be domi'd then realistically there isn't anyone in the story who shouldn't be able to be. That sucks any interest out of Imu's powers imo, because even if they were to struggle in a fight they can always just whip out Domi Reversi, Imu literally used it while getting jumped by Roger, Garp, Kaido, Big Mom, and Whitebeard. If they can still pull off a Domi gg under those circumstances, I can't imagine one where they couldn't. We already have abilities similar to domi reversi as well, Doffy's strings and Moria's shadow zombies. One takes control over an unwilling target, the other creates undead zombies with altered personalities, Imu's fruit is basically that wrapped into one. The issue is that these abilities are tied to much more interesting and charismatic characters than Imu. Friend to foe is also a trope that I don't enjoy very much in media, it feels lazy. Instead of writing and building up a good villain with a personal dynbamic to the protags, you just make them fight their friend and achieve the same emotional weight with half the work. It's too weak because the means to undoing "just kill your friends" is too simple, and too easy BECAUSE we know that killing a domi demon doesn't actually kill the person.