Erik Lehnsherr's holocaust survivor background would not really play well when race swapped.

This whole bleeding thing is tiring. Superman bleeds a lot in pretty much every single comic or animation he comes up 1v1 against heavy hitters like Darkseid, Wonderwoman, Bizarro, Metallo, or Doomsday.

There is a reason everyone identifies the franchise with Jack Sparrow. POTC is not some cinematic universe you can have other characters carrying the franchise. People tuned in for Jack. If the latest movies didn't perform as well as you said then it might just mean time to wrap up the series. Casting new female leads won't re-capture the magic of the original movies.

Luffy has spent the entire series being a hero, liberating oppressed countries and freeing people. Wano, Dressrossa, Skypeia, Alabasta, etc, Luffy goes around being the hero of freedom and equality, literally what you said Joyboy seemed to want to do. Him, Luffy, saying I don't want to be a hero or king while acting like a hero is null.

Do you understand the significance of burning someone's flag in OP? You are declaring all-out war with them. Shanks toying with them with fake poison and then letting them go was actually a soft move on his part. Any other Yonko or captain or even the World Government would have executed you for that act; no compromise. As for Eustass MID, he had it coming; you do not threaten the annihilation of thousands and do not get murked on the spot. Even then, he only neutralised them and left them alive to let the giants do the rest since it was their home threatened to begin with.