Somebody please explain this to me? How delusional are the Naruto SS fans to think that one panel with a forehead tap, was enough to vote them the most best anime couple.
... What? Best anime couple? For that single scene?
Wow. Some people has LOW standards.
Sadly, this sort of opinion depends on your fandom.
I always keep thinking.. If we had won the pairing wars and NaruSaku was canon. We will be the ones enjoying all this pairing stuff that has been coming out since the manga ended. The Naruhina fans are the luckiest fandom.
If NS was canon, we will be in the same position NH is right now. SS is the only sh*tty pairing. The fact that there is still drama after 12 kittening years says something about it. I know things will ultimately work out for the Uchiha family but I have to ask all the SasuSaku fans....
Was it worth it? 
I am glad Kishimoto did not make SS into the type of pairing all the SS fangirls assumed it would be.
If my favorite couple becomes canon in an awful way I guess that I would take it anyway, but I would naively like thinking that I would be able to openly criticize the terrible execution.
Anyway I have not been following this Gaiden crap, but from what you are talking, it sounds real, real bad. And SS looks as pathetic and pernicious as always.