User blog comment:B214/Volume 21 info & spoilers/@comment-95.90.227.221-20160416005245/@comment-1359322-20160416015944

Wow i never knew that Issei is a patheric weakling especially since he's currently stronger than over half of the characters introduced in the series. For starters do you even realize what you're commenting on?

Ishibumi nerfed DxD so what? If he makes DxD too powerful then there wouldn't be any need for Ise to obtain the A×A and E×E power-up? There wouldn't be any freaking need for the Counter Terrorist Team D×D in that situation, Ishibumi can just let Rias, Akeno, Kiba, Gasper, Vali, Sairaorg, Dulio etc all rot into nothingness since as long as Ise has his full power D×D mode he's gonna be super OP, no one can beat him, they should just do nothing and leave all to Ise. Threat comes, "rescue us Ise", Ise comes beat enemy and leaves every single time.

You want a story like that? Just a repeat of Ise doing everything and everyone else being useless? Ishibumi didn't nerf D×D simply because he wants Ise to have room for growth, he did it with proper consideration.

He didn't want to make story go to a repetitive route of powerful enemy appears, spam DxD, win. You know how meaningless the story will become if it's like that. Every fight Ise just needs to use DxD and win. And more importantly, he didn't want to butcher all the characters he spend time making them grow and become stronger. If Ise becomes too strong other characters wouldn't have to do anything, they can just sit there drink tea or coffee and leave everything to Ise. Then why the hell did Ishibumi even bother to make the characters stronger?

You want a super powerful MC like One Punch Man in D×D or any other series? Sure that's okay as long as you're fine with everyone else being useless good for nothing characters that only knows how to depend on the MC every time there's a threat. But that type of story would most probably only be good for you, i prefer a MC who is powerful but not too overpowered, so that the allies have their share of role in the story. I don't want a super OP MC that comes at a great cost of making everyone else irrelevant.

D×D is an OP power that causes that great cost hence it's nerfing is totally understandable for me.