Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-31338621-20190501030435/@comment-32685487-20190504170335

The size of Konoha doubled, the amount of people did too. Not to mention they now had to work with not only the land of fire itself but the other lands most of the time with some things. So Kakashi and Naruto had higher work loads than the previous Hokage did. Even then as shown with Hiruzen the Hokage has always been busy