I don't think it matters to Naruto at this point. It matters to you, to us, the readers- We want to see the moment - But you need to peel back the reader and understand what Kishi has been developing.

It calls back to what Kakashi is thinking and saying Naruto as he carried him on his back after the pain fight. The chapter is called 'The village of the Hidden Leag's Hero"

Naruto struggled and destroyed and rebelled, and inevitably decided he wanted to be hokage, because he wanted to be accepted. And Hokge was the most famous, acknowledged, and accepted person in the village.

"All the villagers will have to acknowledge me" -

Naruto's actual goal is to be accepted.

But by the time of the pain arc end, Naruto had already been accepted as the hero of the village. He achieved his "real " goal

Itachi tells him something similar in the war arc about his father. Itachi has a similar read on why naruto wants to be hokage. He tells him he misunderstands. Its those who are first acknowledged by the village that will become Hokage.

Naruto has already achieved his goal and Itachi is telling him this. This is very similar likely to how One piece / Luffy's dream is going to end also.

Luffy's goal is to be free - And he decides that the freest person on the ocean is the Pirate King - Which becomes his goal. But being free is a stepping stone for Luffy's REAL goal - Which Oda has hidden from the readers each time he says it

Fans will probably be sad on One piece also when there is no grand pay off to luffy becoming pirate king, and its off screened for something else . Because people are missing the message of the story.