Someone else may have noticed, but
this last set nicely covers
recent Toriyama’s tidbits about the strength of Cell Max and Orange Piccolo.
Despite not including Goku and Vegeta from Super Hero and Broly movies, it includes SS Broly and SS Gogeta, and surprisingly or not they are implied to be stronger than Orange Piccolo. Since Goku and Vegeta in their Super Saiyan Blue forms were no match for SS Broly, that could suggest Orange Piccolo is actually supposed to be leveled with Super Saiyan Blue, and not Ultra Instinct like many assumed.
Also, if Cell Max is on par with SS Broly, Gohan correctly assumed Goku and Vegeta wouldn’t be able to beat Cell Max, because they also couldn’t defeat SS Broly until they fused. Another detail is that completed Cell Max would be above SS Broly, if they are equal without that condition.
Speaking of Beast Gohan, if we assume Broly can’t readily access all his Super Saiyan power at will and not counting fusions, Gohan really is the strongest character that debuted in the films, at least in the storyline Toriyama came up on his own.
I understand it’s weird that Toriyama, Toyotaro and Uchida apparently disagree on this matter, though I believe this is not intentional. Perhaps they didn’t dig into each other scripts that deeply, and mostly shared general ideas of what kind of stories will be written. Toriyama moved a little bit forward from Broly despite the timeline being ahead of Toyotaro’s, while Toyotaro’s characters far exceeded what Toriyama could have imagined he would do in that short time.
Characters strength level isn’t always perfectly conveyed. Toyotaro seems to be the most aware of it, and probably he will convey it clearer in the manga’s next chapters.