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I think it's a combination of a lot of things, people genuinely liking that plotline, channels being inconsistent with the episodes being airred which caused most people to no look past chunin exams or part 1 in general, AND the fact that Kishimoto straight up flip flops whenever he wants Naruto to be a genius or not, like, Tsunade arc and early shippuden pretty much go out of their way to Hammer on your head how much of an untalented shitter Naruto is.