I don't like these posts, i'll be honest about that.
The reason is is because you're asking way too much of something to depend on for something that doesn't seem to work in the first place. I can't even see why Sasuke and Sakura work in the first place or how anyone can find appeal in it. Mostly because it is all so totally fake. Not in that they are fictonal characters, but the type of love people expect out of Sasuke and Sakura is a fake love in the first place. It is idealized imaginary love, not real love. If you see a similar relationship like this in real life it just doesn't work in the long run. Sasuke is too closeted and Sakura is too attention seeking. They don't see anything with each other other than their initial and top layer impressions. Sasuke is a self-serving man that sees love as more of a hinderance than an asset. He sees no joy, no reason, and no positive gains when being in a relationship. To him it is too much work. As for Sakura, well...girls like her just don't live too long in that lifestyle. I have seen girls like her exist in the beginning especially high school where they think "He is the popular guy, so I want to be with him to also be popular" which was Sakura's intention in the first place. This caused rivalry with Ino and so many of the other girls in their class. After High School, the girl kind of grows up. She learns that he isn't the guy she expects and moves on...usually finding someone who actually completes her.
Look at a anime called "Okami-san and her seven companions." She was a girl who fell in love with the popular guy only for the popular guy to betray her for his own games. Everyone picks on her and calls her names because he makes claims about her that were untrue, but noone would believe her. "He is too cool, why would he do that to you?" She ends up being an introvert and and being secluded, not trusting anyone ever again. Then you have the other guy...quiet, shy, fear of people looking at him, and he sees her and the strength she has and he says "I love her. I love her strength and I wish I could be strong too." This ends up with him being strong for her and he gains so much more. She begins to trust him and he gains the strength he has been looking for. When that old popular guy came back, she was afraid of him. So much so that she broke down until she conquered that fear of him. This usually how it plays out...maybe not as dramatic or overblown, but a very similar concept. She has a crush, the crush hurts her, she gets upset and moves on. She meets another guy that truly loves her, but she is untrusting until he shows her that trusting him would not be a bad thing. They overcome together. You see this in many romance stories especially comedies. People like Sasuke...they don't see people, they see possessions.
This is how Sakura should have turned out. Instead she still holds onto the popular guy until he gives in and just takes her.
In order for SS to even beging to work, you have to tear down both characters on a dynamic level since chapter 1. Sasuke would need a major overhaul to the point that he wouldn't be the Sasuke you know of in the story today. Would you even like that kind of Sasuke? The kind of Sasuke that is not a angry, revengefilled, dark character, but rather a character who is shy and introverted because he is hurting inside? He pushes people away not because he hates them, but because he just has problem with trust and people. He was betrayed one too many times by his own family and maybe even abused so he is scared all the time. He is not the confident looking man that strolls into the building acting cool. He is more jittery pushing people away and sleeking into the corner because he feels safer there. Is that the Sasuke you want? In fact, having Sasuke like this, he wouldn;t even beging the road of revenge in the first place. That part wouldn't even exist at all. He wouldn't even be confident...just reserved.
Naruto would have no need to start a rivalry with him because Sasuke wouldn;t want such a rivalry. He would avoid confrontations and challenges like that. Naruto would be seen as bully rather than the reject in that case. So now Naruto's dynamic would have to change just so Naruto isn't seen as the bad guy that picks on poor Sasuke. I can't even begin to list everything that would change. There would be no revenge plot, no Sasuke retreival arc, no Sasuke trying to take over the world, none of that. The story of Naruto would be VERY different.
You can't have Sasuke be both ways. This is the whole problem in the first place. You can't have him be so confident he believes he can kill anyone, but also is afraid to even come in contact with anyone and pushes himself away because he is afraid to be hurt again. This is exactly what the pro-enders want us to believe, but how much do you guys actually believe that? Do you see Sasuke as a scared little boy who the whole time that is afraid to love Sakura because "He doesn't want anyone close to him?" It doesn't sound right. As some of you said, he seems more like an apathetic asexual.
But, Kishimoto never made Sasuke this way. He didn't make any of the story this way and honestly, threads like this seem pointless even if you guys can have great ideas.
The scene in the Last was for the NS viewers. I think you're requesting it to be more ham-fisted?
Why not? Everything else was ham-fisted into us with the Naruto the Last scarf that represents the "red string of fate", genjutsu that just so happened to put Naruto in the memories of Hinata and not say anyone else's who was also in the pool too. Wouldn't Sakura get all of Naruto's memories of Naruto loving her and showing her stuff?
Heck, even the villain is an obvious ham-fisted with the fact that the first thing this guy does is proclaim his love for Hinata and how she needs to be his princess. That was his one and only purpose. He didn't want to take over the world, he didn't want to destroy it, he just wante HInata's hand in marriage because he said he loved her. No reason on why he loved her, no reason on how he knew of her, or any kind of character backstory that lead up to that point. Where was he when Kaguya came down? Where was he when he could have come down from the moon much sooner? Why did he wait two years after everything unfolded to come down and proclaim his love?
Nothing was explained about Toneri at all. We actually know more about Kaguya than we do about Toneri...and we didn't know anything about her. As well, what happens after Naruto the Last, where did he go? Why doesn't he make a return? Are they friends? Why doesn't Toneri come down and help Naruto fight some of the villains that pop up? Especially when the villains are of his own clan. Because his only purpose was to make Naruto jealous that he was taking Hinata way. His whole purpose was push NH to the limelight. That's it. After NH became canon, don't need him anymore. Wouldn't you like to see him come back and be something other than forced shipping matchmaker? You could make him more interesting.
Everything in Naruto the Last was one big ham-kittening for NH. Even the director of the film stated the whole film centered around them and this "NH bubble dream" as he described it and the "Scarf that tied them together."
I don't get why you don't accept this, Analyzer. Frankly, you just live in denial. Kishimoto says SS is miserable, you say they aren't, but then tell me I am not respecting Kishimoto inent. Well, his intent was they are miserable. Kishimoto says that Naruto the Last is one big NH ham-kittening, you say it isn't, and then again say we don't understand intent. I am not sure why you are so adamant to say we don't pay attention when you keep ignoring even the most obvious things.
You're like thesereading teachers than think they know more about the story than the author does at times.
Author: "The curtains are blue."
You: "Well obviously the curtains represent his inner child of sadness and regret"
Author: "No, I just made them blue because I like the color blue."
You to the author: "You don't know what you are talking about."
A few issues in the OP's suggestions before I address the rather subjective subject, given I don't believe SS ended in a "bad way".
You don't believe in anything that is Pro-NS in any way so it is not a surprise that you would find fault in this as well, but you keep forgetting one little detail that even most pro-enders say all the time...
If SS didn't end in a "bad way," then why does everyone hate Sakura because she is obsessed with Sasuke? They specifically say that this makes her useless because she is such a fangirl and childish for Sasuke. Also, if it is not bad, why does Kishimoto say it is bad? Why does he say he has no reason why Sasuke and Sakura should be together?
You keep ignoring all of this and tell us "You don't understand." You're right, I don't understand. I don't understand why you think the way you do and why you keep ignoring some of the biggest elephants in the room. I think one of the biggest elephants I have seen from you is how when you first came here you said that this story was poorly written and now you are saying that "It ended perfectly as it should have."
You say you are a NS fan and yet you have said nothing positive about NS since you got here.
You say you think the story could have been written better, but then say everything was written as it should have and was perfect and not written bad what so ever. That it is US who doesn't see it as perfect because we didn't get what we want. Yeah, we didn't get what we wanted. We wanted a coherient well meaningful story and all we got was shipping bait. Are you going to say that we don't know what we are talking about to ourselves?
You know what, I think you are just trying to cause trouble now. You take every argument and purposely go against everything in that argument just to go against it. You can't help yourself to play this opposite opinion especially when later down the line when you completely contradict yourself just because someone points out a fallacy in your argument.
Anything negative about NH and SS and you just want to go right against it even if your argument makes no sense.
There is no reason why SS is together in the first place. Kishimoto says this straightforward. You say there is a perfect reason why Sakura and Sasuke are together and just also say that Kishimoto is bad at romance so that is why there is not a good explanation. Well, which is it? You say that NS doesn;t need ham-fisted moments, but it is perfectly okay for NH to have a ham-fisted movie.
I want to ask everyone here...right now...How many of my fellow posters on here believe that Naruto the Last was a ham-fisted NH movie? How many of those same people think that such a concept was necessary or do you think it should have been resolved in the manga? How of my posters here believe Naruto the Last was shipping bait and should have been more about Naruto and Team 7?