So my best friend and I were having a discussion about Sakura, and he brought up something about Sakura which led to an interesting conversation.
I was telling him about why fans were bashing on her since the beginning and why she didn't really go through a lot of development in the story from a retrospective standpoint, and when she did it backfired because of how the ending turned out.
He told me for that those fans don't understand what Kishi was interpreting for her character, and it made sense for Sakura to be the character that she ultimately ended up becoming in the end. She was never given that badass status and that's what Kishi wanted because she was the smartest, but not a total badass.
The biggest reason he brings up was that Naruto is an emotional series thus her being the way she is makes sense and that includes the excessive flashbacks (uchiha hideout, naruto and sasuke, etc.) in the story we got too because of the realistic aspect it brings with the real world standpoint like naruto and sasuke's bond, sakura's love for sasuke, and hinata's love for naruto. Love works in mysterious ways from a real world schematic because it's not about the person you spend the most time with it's about the person who truly loves you from the good and bad times and sometimes the one that's important isn't the one you realize it to be.
Which okay I get that perspective when it comes to love, but it's a mutual thing, where you and someone special reach to that certain point which is something NaruHina and SasuSaku don't quite frankly have. I mean let's face it NaruHina could've happened at the end of war, but nope Hinata didn't talk with Naruto about the confession until two years later which quite frankly wasn't on his mind. Then you've got SasuSaku which many of us can already see the issues with that specific relationship.
Bottom line is, you reach a certain point where it goes too far in Sakura's case for Sasuke where he didn't care until literally the last minute, and the same thing can be said about Naruto's connection to Hinata too. That's particularly why I love the relationship between Naruto and Sakura because that to me is accurate when it comes to love.