Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-33186873-20171024151128/@comment-17623-20171030174228

Naruto couldn't end with the Pain arc (way to much was set up), but the series felt like it didn't know where it wanted to go by that point. He went from being a story about a boys quest for acknowledgement, to a boys quest to saving his friend, to boy is now Ninja-Jesus.