@fanwoman, I wholeheartedly agree.
• For ShikaTema, yup, glad they were together, but I too was disappointed not to see her using her skills as a shinobi. There seems to be an unsettling undercurrent in the manga that the women's goals are fulfilled in their domestic life, not in reaching the zenith of what they've trained so hard for. Temari, Sakura, Karin, Tenten, even Hinata - these were girls who were trained fighters and killers. They weren't taking home-ec class all their childhood. So their epilogue images should correspond with the bulk of their development.
• As for the Konoha as a modern city...whaaatttt??? Since when? It's ridiculous, no matter how you slice it. There is no justification except that they wanted to set Bolt in a modern world and move away from the shinobi mythology. (This was is can be continued by other, less imaginative creators than Kishi, who seemed to genuinely enjoy coming up with techniques and drawing elaborate explanations.)
• Sai/Ino...there is no upside here, for either of them. The relationship makes Ino look shallow and hung up on the past with her Sasuke-lookalike. And Sai, with his confusion of inner beauty vs. outer beauty, his happy ending should have come in the form of someone who transcends those qualifiers somehow. Sai is an artist after all. He sees things with a different eye. It makes no sense whatsoever for Sai to fall for the beauty queen of the series.
• Hinata is a mystery. There is no given no inkling of her life, her purpose, her anything, except what we can glean from the picture: She is a dutiful mother and daughter.
• Kiba - Hmmm.... While I like that he is still brash and a loud mouth, he is still a little to young to be adopting Jiraiya's wandering-eye sort of ways. It's a bit of a let down because, though he may have been the least popular with fans of the rookies, Kiba was always the closest in personality to Naruto. That's why they never got on. So for Kiba to be a washed up, slacker shinobi, it reflects a little bit on Naruto as well. Couldn't he have just as easily wound up like this? Couldn't he have been the going-nowhere Jiraiya character? (Especially if SS happened and Hinata wasn't forced on him Then it truly would be the repeat of Jiraiya/Tsunade dynamic.) Anyway, yes, I agree, Kiba deserved better. There is nothing in his development that would point to this being the resolution of all his work.
• In that same frame of thought, there is nothing in the resolution that explains how Naruto has become mature enough to handle the Kage position, and especially how he has become wise enough to oversee or encourage the massive growth explosion of Konoha. Just as OOC as it is for Kiba to wind up as a slacker wastrel, how is it that Naruto became a typical overworked Kage like those that came before him? Didn't Naruto's development point to him doing things differently? On his own terms and with his own panache? Why did he end up a shackled-to-his-job boss, drinking and dining al desko, who's apparently abandoning his family time? Tackling the realities of life do not have to come at the cost of your goals, your dreams and apparently your soul. But the happy Naruto that swore to be a the Hokage, even if he was still a genin, has long since been forgotten. And there is no explanation as to how or why.
I don't know about everyone else, but one of the things I was most looking forward to at the end of the manga (outside of the NS) was seeing Naruto's rise to the Hokage seat and how he was going to shake things up. I was looking forward to seeing him ruffle feathers and watch the old ways bend to him, instead of him trying to fit into a society that didn't accept him for most of his life. Outside of the bait-and-switch of the romance, I think the depriving readers of the seeing Naruto fulfill his dreams as Hokage, even if it was just a single chapter, is the biggest disappointment in the manga. I would have rather seen that than dashing through the images of the rookies in 700.
• Kakashi as Kage doesn't bother me in the slightest. In fact, I expected it. However, that is because I would assume Naruto would rather not be Hokage yet, thinking it too stifling to a young man who likes to be really active and involved. Kakashi as Kage gives Naruto a chance to matrue and be mentored into the position. It also give him someone to fall back on in case things go wrong, as Kakashi's quite a bit younger than Tsunade. Yet none of this scenario is even hinted at in the manga. As Nate said, instead of Karachi stepping up to help his student make the transition, it is implied that Kakashi is doing it in Obito's stead. And I hate that as readers we're forced to accept Obito's redemption over and over again, when he is the biggest, most horrendous villain of the series. He directly caused the deaths of so many people, in such horrible ways and for such personal reasons, that he puts Kaguya, the puppet-villain, to shame.
• And for Sakura...it's the ultimate injustice. She got demoted, plain and simple, through no fault of her own. She lost her development, which is never explained, and she is awarded to someone who hates her, and the one who loves her broke his own ninja way to be with another. There are no words that could ever make what happened to her fair.