Warning: SPOILERS for One Piece chapter 1063What just transpired on One Piece's Egghead Island is almost a complete recreation of a major moment during the Skypiea saga. Though this is recycling past events, it could actually be One Piece's one and only chance to rectify its past mistakes.
Besides the unpopular Long Ring Long Land, Skypiea initially stood out from the rest of One Piece's past and future islands because the dangers Luffy and his crew originally faced were a result of their own actions. They were tricked into believing that paying the immigration toll to enter Heaven's Gate was optional when in fact there were severe consequences. So when they understandably chose not to pay, they had to face these unfortunate ramifications.
Luffy and his crew are now facing similar repercussions for using Egghead Island's futuristic technology without permission in chapter 1063 of One Piece by mangaka Eiichiro Oda. After "eating without payment" and participating in the "theft of clothing," the Straw Hats are now being hunted by Bartholomew Kuma, which is exactly what happened on Skypiea.
What Skypiea Did Wrong and How Egghead Island Can fix it
What originally made Skypiea so innovative was that this first half of the saga only showed Luffy and his crew dealing with the consequences of not paying the toll to Heaven's Gate. Every main conflict that has happened on almost all the islands that the Straw Hats have ever set anchor on is the result of some preexisting problem or war. At first, Skypiea broke this persistent formula until One Piece decided to complicate matters. There just had to be a villain named Enel who had become the despotic ruler of Skypiea and, of course, Luffy had to free the inhabitants by involving himself in their eventual liberation.
In the present day, Egghead Island has so far only recycled the innovative first half of Skypiea. Although it comes across as lazy writing, this otherwise unfortunate development now serves as One Piece's chance to rectify the second half of Skypiea and in turn break the series' unrelenting formula. If there isn't some massive conflict currently happening behind the scenes on Egghead and the only problems that transpire there are the result of the Straw Hats' own actions and/or a continuation of the ongoing war between One Piece's insidious World Government and the pirates that are wholly unrelated to Egghead, then One Piece will have effectively fixed the grave creative injustice that ruined the Skypiea saga and, in turn, make One Piece more innovative than it has ever been.