Sakura and Hinata never hanged out much even in the anime. I doubt they even hang out that much in Boruto, since SP only uses Sakura when they have to. Them being friends, again, was just a way to deflect criticism from the end pairings.
Kishimoto is not involved with that nonsense, even when the last was coming out before the backlash he said the Last was all the anime staff decision & choices. Even the interviews with the writer and director say so. Using Sakura as a shield for nH was and always has been SP's doing. The manga team doesn't do so not even in the Boruto manga. I don't think he ever considered nH perfect. He always just went with "its what the fans want," and "I'm bad at writing romance."
As for SS...SP rarely cares to do anything with them, and I stop watching Boruto long before they tried to justify Sasuke having any sort of feelings towards Sakura. If I were to guess they probably just go with, "he has problems expressing his feeling towards her."
If that's suppose to be the start of the time travel arc. They either going to go with those three were always friends or Bolt by going into the past made them friends and he is the one that took the picture; which is normally how these types of stories go..
Boruto apparently isn't popular in Japan. Only the die-hard nH SS fan and children still watch it.
Edited by Bail o' Lies, 09 October 2019 - 05:17 AM.