Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-32617252-20170726232219/@comment-734582-20170809161708

Mr. Grave wrote: Not really. I don't think the Sannin fight was anything that Hiruzen couldn't handle. I think the ceiling began to crack during the Naruto vs Six Paths of Pain fight and then it got shattered after Naruto's clones began conjuring oodama rasengan and raining them down Kurama. In the Konoha Crush a handful of ninja were influential enough to determine a fight among hundreds of ninja. During Pain's assault a handful of ninja were powerful enough to determine the fight against a god-like being. During the 4th war, a handful of ninja were influential enough to change the outcome of the fight.

The issues in Naruto have been there from the start, and they were never addressed, so in the end those faults simply keep piling up. While those faults became more noticeable, they've been there from the start.