Let's start off with the story the base story is amazing it's honestly a work of art. The key word in that sentence was a base story unfortunately, corporate greed ruined it. The studio that makes Naruto (Studio Pierrot) released an episode of Naruto every time a chapter of naruto was release. The problem with this is Naruto episodes contain multiple chapters of the manga so naturally, the manga artists couldn't keep up, therefore leaving us with filler. I think that there is a filler that you can like but there is so much filler that they can't make sequels to them so they just leave us with crap. I strongly believe that once you get past the filler the main storyline more than makes up for it.
The next is the art, corporate greed also put a damper on how good this could have been. Studio Pierrot is known for only saving their amazing animations till a big fight/scene (ex. Tokyo Ghoul) so besides this one point, the art is very reasonable.
Another thing I absolutely love about Naruto is the intros and outros, they are each amazing in every single way and I would watch Naruto over again solely for the intros.
Finally the characters/character development. I love all the characters so much and I think the writer did an amazing job creating them, I even think temporary characters (Characters we see in filler/side characters). That being said Character development is a completely different story. Besides characters like Naruto, Sasuke, and maybe Rock Lee, each character gets an arc where you learn a bit about them and then they become basically irrelevant for the rest of the show if they don't die. They could have made Naruto a lot better if they tried replacing some of the filler with either more character development for side characters/main characters or if they made sequels to their fillers.
