Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24168857-20141020124144/@comment-1018594-20141021214248

I think that might actually be a result of Kishimoto's writing: so much of the story revolves around dojutsu that you're almost irrelevant without one, except for certain cases.

I think a lot of people, myself included, lost their shit when Kakashi's Sharingan was stolen because he's literally known as Kakashi of the Sharingan. But once I calmed down, I remembered that he was good enough to make Jonin without a Sharingan, and that does make him pretty badass still. But, a lot of his fighting style did revolve around his Sharingan, so it's interesting to see where he'll go from here.

Evidently, he's still powerful enough to be Hokage in the new movie, so there's that.