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Rurouni Kenshin romance was not truly depicted until the OVAs, and even still the mangaka admitted he was afraid to dive more into the romance but considering it was a Shonen he feared the audience would not take well to it.
YYH was direct, we weren't given multiple love interests like the level of Naruto.
Love HIna I cannot speak on.
Naruto romance suffers from stereotypical female characters, if any thing. Notice how most are not complaining about the build up in between Naruto and Sakura, but rather how she apparently still loves Sasuke.
If Kishimoto, like with the mangaka of Rurouni Kenshin, is being limited because it is a shonen, we can expect things dealing with romance to suffer. If the main focus is action, we cannot expect romance, even when he attempts to introduce, to be fully fleshed out. It's as simple as that.
It's a perfect argument. It's what limited several other shonen before(like Rurouni Kenshin), because the fact that they believe young boys(their targeted audience) would not be interested in such things.
If his editors are limiting him to the point he can properly resolve a romance because they feel it will not bode well with their audience, it's again.. a perfect reason. If Kishimoto's main focus on this manga is the action and because of such his subplot of romance suffers, it is to be expected.
So far the only counter argument you gave was shonens that barely scratched the surface in exploring romance, and never took the big approach of adding multiple love interests. It's a bit of a mess, if any thing, but as I stated your problem seems to be that Sakura still apparently loves Sasuke. I have not seen you voice displeasure in the build up between Naruto and Sakura.
No....just no.... You clearly don't know how it works. When you dedicate as much focus on pairings as Kishi has you cant just write off kitten resolution with "its a shonen" your basing this excuse on a stereotype that doesn't even exist...
