(17 day old bump)
Skip the first 2/3 of this comment if you want to get to what actually matters... Lol. Not to say that it isn't important, but I'm certain many are tired of the Doflamingo/Kata/Luffy talk.
Regarding the whole Doflamingo discussion: I agree his descriptions are outdated, but I do not believe in downgrading him to 7-A+. The whole argument seems to be about him being incapable of doing harm to Gear 4th Luffy, but how can that be suggested when we hardly got to see them fight? The fight began with Doflamingo taking several blows, landing an ineffective kick (explicitly stated due to Haki/Rubber) before displaying his Awakening. A 20 minute time-skip occurs and the battle was completely over-shadowed by King Riku's speech after this. We see a few panels of their fight with Luffy and Doflamingo being pressured before Luffy went in with a Leo Bazooka. Before this, we see almost nothing of their fight (Much like Cracker and Katakuri's respective encounters against Bound-Man)
Now taking this into a general topic of why scaling any of the 3 characters who fought Luffy fully to Bound Man Luffy is a bad idea:
None of the 3 characters Luffy has defeated with Gear 4th are equal to him in power. Doflamingo, Cracker and Katakuri are never shown matching Bound-Man's might. If Luffy is High 7-A in Bound Man, then those 3 should only be "Likely High 7-A" as they only... 'bested' him through various tactics--not because any of them were equal or stronger than him (Doflamingo simply won in stamina, Cracker outmatched him with sheer numbers and defense... also cutting attacks, and Katakuri simply counter-attacked with FS til Bound Man wore off)
- Mini-rant: Before anyone says Katakuri matched Bound-Man with his Power Mochi, this is entirely baseless and we see that Luffy has only begun to suffer damage after 25 minutes of their brawl and taking an unknown number of strikes from him. Someone brought this page into the topic once, and I just have to say--redirecting a punch from the side is not the same as meeting it head-on.
tl;dr: The 3 characters should only scale partially to BM Luffy's AP. Not fully.
Also, throwing Haki into the mix makes this whole topic a complete mess of sorts.
Now that I brought up Doflamingo, I can move onto the Admirals.
Wherever Doflamingo is placed (7-A+/High 7-A/Whatever), Aokiji scales from due to their encounter on Punk Hazard heavily suggesting Aokiji is at least a threat if not equal/stronger to Doflamingo (I am not using fan-bias to suggest Aokiji > Doflamingo even though I agree fully with the notion due to my own opinion on the matter).
Akainu scales from Aokiji obviously. Marco scales from both due to fending off Akainu and kicking Aokiji away. Kizaru from Marco. Jozu from Aokiji (At least partially). Vista from Akainu and scaling to his peers (Marco/Jozu). Mihawk from Vista. Rayleigh from Kizaru (Rayleigh can't scale to Post TS Luffy btw). And whatever else I missed.