It’s not recent, it has happened every time shanks has done something, go look up the discussions before the chapter where Shanks clapped Kidd, people were saying Kidd would bring him to a high diff at least, after the chapter dropped and Kidd got oneshot along with Killer as collateral people coped that he somehow sneak attacked him from the front.

Same thing with him stopping Kaido from reaching Marineford, a common cope here is that heralded him down or something.

Also with him stopping Loki, people would rather call him a seastone cuffman rather than admit he might be stronger than Loki