User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 423: Do It All for Love, Review and Commentary/@comment-24039250-20150309235455/@comment-7418318-20150310054902

My problem is less with Natsu being so powerful and more with the massive gap between him and his comrades.

From the casualness with which Natsu dispatched Bluenote I expect this to be far from his full strength and where does that leave Lucy and Wendy?

Simply, they are left so freaking far behind that they are completely unable to do anything against a foe that is challenging to Natsu.

So we'll either see Natsu rofl-stoming over the enemies with the two girls being effectively reduced to cheerleaders or we'll see them constantly split up into two or three teams with Natsu fighting the boss while the girls take out some underling. Neither is an option I'm particularly looking forward to.

Oh wait there's of course also option 3: Natsu will just roflstomp over all enemies in a manner that can't even be called fighting, like in this chapter, which would just be boring and give him no opportunity to grow further.