Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26822192-20200512085001/@comment-43403813-20200516210517

Honestly, I wholeheartedly agree with the OP. Making Naruto and Sasuke the reincarnations of Indra and Ashura is probably one of the biggest reasons why I dislike everything post-Kage Summit, maybe even post-Pain. It literally trampled one of the biggest plot themes in Naruto. Naruto was the hated one. Naruto was the kid with the demon fox inside of him. Naruto was the underdog that we were all rooting for, and wanted him to succeed in his life.

Him being just another reincarnate destined for power and greatness cheapens the whole journey of the show, all of Naruto's struggles and pain means nothing if his endgoal was something pre-written before his time. Definitely Kishimoto's biggest blunder by far, followed by him retconning the origin of the Rinnegan.