Everything went down hill after the pein arch.
Pain arc is dogshit.>new powerup that somehow jiraiya never thought to mention during the 3 years he was training naruto>everyone stands around getting ganked until naruto shows up>guy conveniently out of the village since he would've just opened 7 or 8 gates and assblasted pain>OH MY FATHER'S CHAKRA pulling naruto's ass out of the fire