Board Thread:Fourth Databook/@comment-24577388-20141105025614/@comment-10330822-20141105072307

What I am talking about is that we spent a good dozen or so chapters watching Naruto "cheat" getting Wind Release using thousands of clones. He basically trimmed down what should have been a years worth of work into five days.

That's the issue here. If it was so hard for Naruto to train of his AFFINITY, why are all of his colleagues all of the sudden have two or three natures. If they all had one nature I could understand, but Sakura somehow managed to learn Earth, Water, Yin, Yang, and conserving chakra to create a Reserve Seal; all while Naruto was struggling to learn Wind?

In terms of the Hokage, it's not so much they learned them, it's just they were tacked on. Why did none of the Hokage, like Hashirama, Tobirama, or Minato ever display their knowledge. Minato didn't use a single nature transformation in his fights, and just stuck to his Flying Raijin as always. Kishi just wasted a horrible opportunity to warm us up to the Hokage's apparent arsenal.

No matter how you look at it, it just looks like these natures are just "tacked" on.