Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-26389992-20170606150416/@comment-734582-20170609104440

Ancladar wrote: Also tired of them making this generation so much better then the old one. I know that the new generation is supposed to surpass the next, but not when they're genin or academy students. Boruto knowing how to do shadowclone before he's even in the academy is bull. Boruto learning rasengan let alone throwing it within a few weeks is bull. Mituski being stronger then some or most jonin is beyond bull, but somewhat acceptable since he's an experiment thing of orichimaru. Shikada being a carbon copy of Shikimaru and knowing how to do all that just as easily as his dad did is a bit less bull, but I hate that he's a cut out of Shikimaru. Naruto learned the Shadowclone by himself in an afternoon. It's not a difficult jutsu in any way, it just requires a lot of chakra to have it be useful.

Naruto learned the Rasengan in a week despite sucking at even the most basic ninjutsu. Boruto at least has shown Ninjutsu proficiency similar to Sasuke or Itachi. Itachi was throwing fireballs before Naruto could throw a Kunai straight. Shikamaru was perpetually lazy, preferring to look at the clouds for hours and couldn't be bothered. We've seen several references now to Shikadai being encouraged to train repeatedly.

The modern generation isn't that good (Boruto couldn't even touch Hanabi, and she didn't even need strong jutsu to repel her. If Chunin exams Neji had stood there, it would've been over in seconds), it's that Naruto's generation in various respect sucked hard. We've seen several older generations beat the shit out of Naruto's generation in terms of feats, being stronger and more impressive.