Hey I really liked the Sasori arc! Pain was great! Shikamaru having a lot of focus against the Akatsuki was great. There are some good things! Even the war had like. 1 or 2 good things (Might Guy vs Madara, Madara vs the 5 kage, honestly Madara was pretty damn good). It did fall off tho

It was good for the first half of it! There's so much worse out there. At least up until pain it was generally pretty damn good. And then sure yeah after pain it nosedived. Badly.