>Wait, what's wrong with liking Naruto?
>Main trio hardly has any meaningful interaction with each other past the original series
>Sakura being completely irrelevant to the plot. She literally doesn't absolutely NOTHING for the entire 700 or so episodes aside from being a big "muh sasuke" crybaby. To excuse her uselessless, they made her into a healer so she would have an excuse not to participate in any fights.
>Sasuke as a character. In the original series he was more or less alright. In shipuden he has very little screentime for the first half of the series or so, then suddenly it's just sharingan this sharingan that with the entire story revolving around sharingan power levels. His interactions with Itachi are pretty good, but outside of that it's just him being all out "crawling in my skin" edgyness.
>Most side characters have terrible development plots, or sometimes don't develop at all. Others have completely useless powers that prevent them from having any meaningful impact, other than prolonging episodesTenTen, Ino* or serving as deus ex machinas for story progressionKiba with his smelling powers, Shikamaru always weaseling his way out of things**.
Outside of that the show tries really hard to milk itself by constantly dragging out episodes with constant pointless reminiscence montages of previous episodes, as well as ranging from meh to terrible filler episodes. Characters that have exhausted their use story-wise are swiftly killed off jiraya, yamato. Previous villains have changes of heart for no reason and help the good guys.
Sage for offtopic.