It isn't going to happen, but...
How kino would it be if Imu just randomly disappeared mid fight. No one knows what happened.
Luffy fights Shamrock of something to fill in the gap.

Then all of a sudden, you get a cut away of Blackbeard sitting on the throne.
-3 month break.-

It is retarded but the hype it would create would break the internet.

>One Piece would have been an objectively better story is it followed the adventures of this crew and them achieving world domination
>however it would have been 30x less popular

How does that make you feel?

The old Gen just looks cooler than the new gen