Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-28819877-20170515143845/@comment-734582-20170516170853

CyberianGinseng wrote: Exactly. Imagine the possibilities if Konoha pursued this line of research after it was revealed to them in the 4th war. Most of their problems over the years stemmed from lost or diminished critical jutsu: Mokuton, Sharingan, FTG, Adamantine Sealing Chains, etc. Momoshinki lampshades this in the movie! "Too bad you don't have a way of passing on your power." or something to that effect. What if they could retain their ninjutsu at its greatest strength and protect themselves from violations like Edo Tensei at the same time? Well the biggest problem would probably be degradation due to dilution of power and genes. I mean, Orochimaru's research could possibly revitalize many lost or weakened Kekkei Genkai. Then again, we learned that the Ninja World economy is based on Ninja, that it was already a dying system (The entire reason for the attack from the Sand) and that since then it's only become worse (Boruto-era tells us several times it's way more peaceful than ever before). So there's good reason to believe that Kekkei Genkai research simply isn't as needed. The Boruto movie suggests that there is much more research aimed at ninjutsu (IE the Kote).

By the way, i would argue that some of these powers caused problems. Madara would never have been able to put the world in so much danger if he didn't have Sharingan. In a sense, it would be better for the world if it didn't have so much power.

still, the series can go many ways. The Shin essentially would be the death of the Shinobi, since they're vat-grown supersoldiers. You could write an interesting series about the Shin, how they change Shinobi, the resulting problems and tensions. Just look at how our world is reacting to ever increasing automation.