Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-25984471-20170114103632/@comment-734582-20170121213944

Lorenzo.r.1st wrote: I meant to say that if he was an actual prodigy, he wouldn't need to cheat. If he had relied on his own strengths from the very beginning, he wouldn't have needed to cheat. The point of the movie was that things go easy for Boruto and nobody really praises him for anything -everything he does "is to be expected from the son of the Seventh"- so he decides that if nobody's gonna care, why should he?

As pointed out with the Kote and the game, if Boruto sees a simpler method of achieving things, why not do it?