Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-34277398-20190309153341/@comment-32685487-20190315161221

Naruto is so busy as Hokage because his role was expanded along with the Village remember? the Village is now 2-3 times as large as before and Naruto is also dealing with business outside Konoha's walls, such as dealings with the other villages and the Daimyo's of each land including the Fire Daimyo too. Naruto using Shadow Clones is the only way he would be able to keep it all up as he set himself up for that work load instead of hiring some more advisors and helping hands besides Shikamaru. Literally it's just him and Shikamaru dealing with it all rn. Hiruzen only had dealings with the much smaller Konoha and the Fire Daimyo and he had 2 people helping him with that, which was Koharu and Homura. Danzo dealt with the darker dealings that Konoha had to do for the most part. Hiruzen also was the representative of his clan, and he had to deal with his clan and their dealings too. So in all he was busy, but nowhere near as busy as Naruto is as a Hokage.