Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-27127950-20151027213016/@comment-27392440-20160110015752

I agree with the premise of what you said but would like to add Nnoitra could have meant that he didn't even know becoming an arrancar was an option before Aizen told him, regardless of the hogyoku (if most adjuchas knew they didn't have to risk falling to gillian while gaining power at the same time just by cracking off most of their masks you wouldn't have seen guys begging to be partially eaten like Grimmjow's fraccion, suggesting most hollows didn't even know arrancar were a thing before Aizen)