WOW, UH, ODA, WOW
WHAT A WAY TO BREAK YOUR MAIN RULE
And I'm like 99% sure he did actually Go There this time, since none of the usual "fakeout so they can show up fifty chapters later" tricks were employed! It was just straight up final moments.
Final moments of Ace, mind you
I WARNED YOU THAT THERE'D BE SPOILERS
But anyway yeah IT WAS ACTUALLY PRETTY POWERFUL mainly because while Oda's had some hilariously improbable survivals in the past (Pell), he's still not as bad with that as Kubotite. So there was IMPACT!