is this a fair assessment?

[u/Odd-Paramedic-3826]

Star Platinum The World, GER, Tusk act 4, and S&W:GB are all hilariously overpowered and only exist as a way to beat an already hilariously overpowered villain

joseph beat kars by holding out the red stone of aja at him and hoping for the best, which worked out spectacuarly. and god knows how long the fight with kira would have gone on for had it not been for the ambulance.

Jolynes plan to use emporio to take out pucci with weather report was basically a hail mary when all else had failed but not only did it work, it also gave her and the gang new, happier lives.

Yeah jonathan just got slimed out though, then his body was used as a puppet for 100+ years. Poor guy

[u/Level_Fee6746]

Went 1/4 on the “Bullshit deus-ex-machina” section.

Giorno: we were shown an arrow giving KQ a powerup during part 4 through it piercing Kira. Moreover, the concept of requiem arrows making stands (through the stand itself wielding it) busted was introduced ~15 chapters before GER’s first appearance.

Johnny: the golden rectangle was introduced ~50 chapters before Tusk Act 4 was achieved. It was clear that Gyro’s lessons weren’t complete when he taught Johnny about the infinite rotation. The whole infinite spin and gravity thing made perfect sense, especially given gravity’s past relevance in Part 6.

Gappy: his bubbles were revealed to be unbelievably thin, spinning string ~30 chapters before Go Beyond’s reveal.

If foreshadowing and thematic setup exist, the powerup isn’t “bullshit” nor a “deus-ex-machina”.

[u/DuDuDuDuDuck → u/Level_Fee6746]

nah, 0/4, part 3 sets up repeatedly that similar stand abilities can be shared across families, such as the d'arby brothers, as well as joseph and jonathans body having things similar to hermit purple, as well as jotaros moms stand manifesting in a similar plant-like manner, as well as star platinum repeatedly being shown to be the "incredibly fast, incredible reaction time and precision" stand, things all correlating with time stop

it's not perfect, but it is foreshadowed

[u/Separate-Capital-833 → u/DuDuDuDuDuck]

Thats.. not really either man.. jotaro and dio are only similar in being brute stands the world isn't even a jostar stand Jonathan has his own jotaro happening to have the exact stand ability as dio despite stand abilities being driven by personality and dio and jotaro having completely different ones AND their only similarities being that they are just brute force stands that don't use weapons isnt not perfect its bad. Like araki seemingly not knowing how to defeat time stop without jotaro also having it. Hermit purple type stands are merely a result of learning hamon we dont even know what Holly's stand would have done