See you in 20 years when you catch up.

It actually is, yes.

Though if you haven’t started the series at this point, you are in for a world of hurt with filler, recaps, and molasses-slow pacing.

There is a fan project called One Pace, which re-edits the whole series to cut out as much as possible and make it easier to just watch the main story all the way through. Unless you really want to see time-stretching that makes Dragonball Z look hurried, you should watch it that way instead.

If you read the manga, the pacing is much better.

They slow drip these themes at first, but it becomes more apparent as you go on.

One Piece goes hard. One characters backstory basically starts with him, as a kid, begging to be allowed to die.