In any case, my strategy right now is to just sit back, relax, ignore the rabids, and watch how this all works out in our favor.
It's to be expected from any side of fandom to celebrate what could be taken as proof against another pairing. We are guilty of the same thing. It's what fandom does. Some are probably more reserved about it than others, but you tend to hear the 'louder' voices and assume this is the voice of the entire fandom. After Sakura's confession, people were claiming NaruSaku canon too, yet even NS remains in it's limbo. After the confession I pretty much assumed Kishi wouldn't put a end to the love triangle until the very end when Sasuke is dealt with, so I'm just going to stick with that. Claiming other ships are dead is pointless as Kishi seems determined to string them all along until the end. As dysfunction as SasuSaku is, it's still there. As underdeveloped as NaruHina is, it is also still there. And since I never liked people trying to claim NS dead, I try not to reciprocate in the same way XD ..which is hard to do sometimes.