I remember hating post timeskip Naruto up to after Orochimaru's hide out arc because of how fucking useless Naruto was compared to even Sakura
Peak Naruto was him fainting after Sakura faked a love confession to him too. I almost passed out IRL reading that BS. But yeah I agree, his post TS was such a letdown where as Sakura actually amazed me especially vs Sasori and then it all went downhill with Sasuke back in play lol.
I've always loved super strength though and having Tsunade and thus Sakura as female ninja Hercules or ninja Wonder Woman or whatever was extremely awesome to me lol.
I had such high hopes for Naruto himself post TS and what we got was more clones and bigger Rasengans? Wind affinity speciality for the amazing Rasenshuriken but nothing else? Sigh. Almost as bad Kubo writing Ichigo lmao. Guy spams Getsuga Tenshos and only those too, like it pays his bills to do so. Exclusive sponsorship deal or something.
That's why I loved Jojo for its strategic fights and protagonists with unusual powers especially from part 4 onwards and the immense creativity with them. Araki was doing some absolutely insane shit with Jolyne especially, Doflamingo would be proud lmao.