In your own opinion, do you think Hinata wouldn't have such an incel of a mean girl stanbase, had SP actually done their jobs right by following exactly what Kishimoto has planned for his own story?
It's hard to say, really. If I've learned anything in these past few years is that everything is really fluid and people are easily influenced. This can be in both good terms and less good, so to speak.
Hell, even Sakura's fanbase nowadays is kind of the same. Kind of all fanbases are like that nowadays. It's an overall trend, it's not specific to just one fanbase nowadays.
These newer and younger people in the fandom spaces are totally different than the ones in the fandom spaces from a decade ago, for example.
So we would be comparing apple to oranges, really.
I don't know if that's the answer you were looking for but... that's how I view it.
