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That post reminds me of this one I saw on Reddit:

1 of my issues with DBS/ Resurrection F. Remember when a completely OFF-GUARD 12 year old Kid Goku tanked a bullet from a sniper rifle?

o I just want to throw my unneeded two-cents into the pile on this one. I see a lot of people get mad about this, and I feel like it’s a little unfounded. First, I want to point out that it’s because of how stupid strong Goku and the gang have gotten over the years. Ending of Dragon ball, it was insane to watch King Piccolo blow up mountains and cities. Skip a few arcs and we watch Frieza blow up a planet 10x more massive than the Earth with a finger. Cell said he could obliterate the solar system and Majin Buu was said to be wiping out galaxies over the course of multiple centuries. Basically, Toriyama and Toyotaro have lost ways to give stakes to the series. There aren’t enough universes to show how powerful Beerus and Whis are. So the direction Super has taken is that of ki control. When Goku gained Super Saiyan God, it was so powerful, he couldn’t even fathom just how string he had gotten. We had never seen that before. No matter how strong he had gotten, he still had almost immediate control over his ki. When he went super saiyan for the first time, the issue was keeping control over his emotions because of how intense the feeling was, but he still immediately knew he was strong enough to demolish Frieza. Super saiyan god brought Goku to such insane heights that he couldn’t even imagine how to control it until he fought Beerus for some more time. Their clashes were threatening to destroy the macrocosm, until Goku finally equaled Beerus’s punch. From this point onward in Super, part of the narrative is about Goku and Vegeta’s journey to master godly ki and have better control of their power by creating Super saiyan blue, minimizing the strain that blue puts on the body, in Goku’s case using kaioken paired with Blue, etc. One of Goku’s big flaws throughout his life is how nonchalant he can be. He often gets too relaxed in a fight or tight spot and will lose sight of his objective or be caught off-guard. Goku holds back when he really shouldn’t; He said he could have finished Buu when he fought him the first time, but he wanted Goten and Trunks to have a chance at fighting Buu. Goku was even too confident in Gohan’s power during the Cell games, nearly killing Gohan, himself, and all his friends. What I’m getting at is that Toriyama is just inflating a character trait we’ve seen from Goku a million times and using it to the advantage of the plot. Goku can suppress himself to millionths even billionths of his power and he would still be strong enough to take on Vegeta from the Saiyan saga. And we’ve seen how much damage someone can take when their caught off-guard or supressed in the series. Refer to Frieza getting damaged by Goku during their fight even though he was was wayyy stronger. Frieza said he was using 5% at the beginning and 50% for part of the latter bits of the fight. But he was getting damaged by someone far weaker than him. Really all it is is a new plot device to make up for the fact that Goku and friends are just too strong for it to reasonably be told in a story. Anyways, again, this is just my interpretation and two-cents. Everyone is welcome to disagree.