Ooo yeah, I didn't think about that aspect. Boruto wouldn't last two seconds if he had to fight off what Naruto had to deal with at his age.
He would have lost to randoms and Shika in the Chunin Exams if it weren't for the chakra device. If this were the old Naruto, I'd say go for it. You're a ninja so use whatever means you can to win, no matter how underhanded...but it's not...now it's just trying to play ninja while trying to act more like samurai or something with all the "fair play" and such. Heck, Naruto pretty much stopped being "ninja" a majority of the time after part one's Chunin Exams.