Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-45444155-20200728155230/@comment-3279282-20200801010814

...do I really need to repeat myself again?

Kabuto gave the definition of "perfect sage" as someone who can use Sage Mode, no matter how well. Orochimaru was an imperfect sage because he wasn't able to use Sage Mode.

Come on people, these discussions were held ages ago already, you're just repeating everything for the n-th time. And this is on top of the fact that the Naruto manga is absolutely riddled with inconsistencies and unanswered questions. So it's an entire circle of people throwing different inconsistencies ("Yeah but chapter X said Y" - "Yeah but chapter A said B" - "Yeah but chapter M said N" etc.) of the manga at each other because they support their respective opinion.

And in the end, nobody gets the answer they want, because the manga is just that shitty.