Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-25319479-20151210133011/@comment-1458758-20151212002618

Uchiahmasters wrote: I don't get why people are defending these fillers, they say that it gives us more Naruto, but that would only be a valid argument if there wasn't any canon left to animate, but there is, so saying it gives us more Naruto is not a valid argument.

Except it's a perfectly valid argument. The manga is finished, even if the anime were to only animate the canon from now on, we would have no more information than we had before, we would be at the exact same value of Naruto regardless, just it would be animated. So the fact that fillers, even if it's not good, adds something we wouldn't have otherwise, is still perfectly reasonable.