Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-32617252-20170726232219/@comment-734582-20170811073930

Mr. Grave wrote: But y'see, the problem you listed is not a problem that's exclusive to Naruto. It's something that's plagued and is continuing to plague shonen anime for quite a while. True. Still, the issues of ceilings etc have been there from the start. It's just that in Part 1 there wasn't much to make those faults apparent. It's only by building and building on a problematic setup that cracks become more and more visible. Yet stuff like overpowered children have been part of Naruto from the start, the same for powerups. Naruto defeated Haku with Kurama, starting a long tradition of Naruto needing that power to take on enemies, or a tradition of fairly quick powerups. Naruto learned Shadowclone in an afternoon, starting the tradition of short (but intense) training times. And arcs like Konoha Crush already established the ratio of useful to useless people, and the world largely being run by the ultra-powerful.

Sure, by not really addressing this the problems really started to show in Part 2, but the same kind of thing went on in pt1. Ceilings being shattered are only a consequence, not a cause.