Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-33545035-20200420172652/@comment-24824859-20200423191527

Kaguya intentions and feelings are irrelevant. According to the chapter, Earth should have been lifeless by the time she arrived to eat the chakra fruit. I could buy into the idea that the fruit wasn't fully riped and at full capacity was it not for the fact that the Shinju on Earth absorbed a significant amount of TBSM Naruto's chakra, within a minute (being generous here), to the point where Yang-Kurama had to resort to siphoning chakra from his other half to get back into fighting power.

This is such a huge plot hole when it didn't need to be one. All Kodachi had to do was kept the Shinju as a vampiric tree that feeds on generations of bloodshed (where all parts of the human body, including blood, contain spiritual and physical energy that the tree then combines into chakra) and natural energy. He could then further this by having Otsutsukis go to planets to plant actual seedlings and have them stir the dominant species into warring among themselves for generations to come. How long it takes for the Shinju to grow and bear a chakra fruit would depend on how often the dominant species kill each other. That would explain any inconsistency relating to the time it takes the Shinju to grow and the power it and its chakra fruit hold.

Alternately, if we apply the soft retcon of humanity having chakra before Hagoromo (I was never a fan of humanity not having chakra pre-Hag, anyways), just have the Shinju absorb the chakra from dead bodies instead.

Now, I'm interested to see how the series will rectify this egregious plot hole