Is the One Piece anime just irredeemably worse than the manga?

As the title says. My friend reads the manga and I watch the anime, but my views of One Piece are significantly lesser than his. I don’t dislike the show, but every fight is so dragged out that I stop caring about it and just want it over with so I can move onto the next island. Hell I can’t even take serious moments seriously because after watching Luffy get beat to a bloody pulp for 10 episodes and say “I won’t lose!” after getting up for the 20th time. The real “I won’t lose!” Moment has lost all emotional value. Like the boy who cried wolf. Is this issue I’m encountering a problem in the manga? Is the anime that much worse that my views of the series are so skewed.