Kishimoto may be the mangaka of Naruto and the ending was made by him, but that doesn't mean that he wasn't influenced/pressured by the people he works for. He may have made the ending nH, but it was SP and his editors that wanted it to be nH. From what people have said about him; Kishimoto is the type of person that eventually gives into pressure. Also he is not an mangaka doing it for the art, it is his job. He enjoys it of course but it is still his job. If his bosses wanted him to end Naruto up with one person or another he will do so. SP has a very close relationship with Shounen Jump and it parent company Shueisha. They could easily ask for them to help pressure kishi to have nH be the main pairing, especially if they bring up that "the majority of the international fanbase is nH."
The only people that like the ending were SS an nH fans, and even by how they are acting we can see how well that went.
I never said he was never pressured by his colleagues or readers. I just said that he's the writer, the artist, the creator. Naruto was his. I don't see why he can't hold his own dignity as a writer and complete the manga in his own way and had to listen to others. Sure, people love Naruto. I guess if he listened to others, he didn't hold on to this own ideas enough to actually write it down. You could say he wrote it for money? Or he wrote it for his fans? What fans, exactly? NH fans? Is that all?
He might have started the manga because of his own reasons, but I'm just saying he must have lost his way. You're not suppose to tarnish your image, or your manga's just because "you get tired of it". He could have ended it long ago before he even gotten tired. And of course, he has people working for him and with him and he'd have to listen to them. But at least make it more logical.
Naruto passing off his love for Sakura as a rivalry of Sasuke? How does that make any sense? I just hope he knows how wrong and off it is for Sakura or Naruto to think that. And if there's a backstory where Sakura had to say that just because she thinks she doesn't deserve him and vise versa, then show us. At least that makes more sense than what was shown on the manga or on-screen.
Anyway, yeah. They're still complaining and bashing NS fans. Guess they're not satisfied with how the series went either.