User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 528: Dragon of Magic, Review/@comment-1359322-20170325101507/@comment-29874610-20170325141320

Well I see your point. However Hiro has always been like that - he resolves the main threat really good, but the side villains (spriggan for example) won't always get that treatment. As I see it, he dealt with August and Irene in such a way, because he was moving on to Zeref and Acnologia, the main threats of the arc. Because of which, the battles with August and Irene weren't as good as we have hoped. However even the buildup shows that Zeref and Acnologia won't be treated that way.