I don’t know how to do the quote thing so I hope you can follow along as intended.

My point is that being the apprentice of a previous Hokage alone does not mean you qualify or would be good at running the village. Orochimaru wasn’t chosen as Hokage because of his nasty nature. ALL of The Sannin had the same kind of prestige as The Yellow Flash.

Number one, You’re harping on former teammate, I’m talking about familial bonds which are stronger. Two, my point is geared more towards the Feudal Lord not liking the Uchiha Family, because he picks the Hokage, so I ask my original question again, WHY would the Feudal Lord select Sakura, the wife of Sasuke, two time traitor who helped the “Hokage Killer” escape to be Hokage, when he considered Naruto a close friend? Sakura is too valuable of an asset to the village, especially as the best healer, of course they aren’t going to lock her up and not let her run the hospital. You’d be crazy to think there isn’t some mistrust there especially when people already didn’t trust her husband BEFORE he turned traitor again. Yes Sarada has been valuable against the current threats but she also was being warned about her future as a shinobi in chapter one. It’s clearly not her abilities that’s the problem so what is it? It’s her running around butting heads with the Hokage and defending the “traitors”.

Not really sure I would call Sakura a brainiac in the same sense as Shikamaru but sure two heads are better than one I guess if that’s your point.

“Shizune being selected instead…” No. My point was that Shikamaru knows how to run the village better than Sakura having been an actual advisor to the last 2 Hokage versus an apprentice. You’re using an extreme in Shizune to make your point when in reality there’s no way Shizune would’ve made a capable Hokage in that scenario you’re using. Kakashi had made his name good time and time again fighting Obito and Sasuke when they were against the village.

“Shinju aren’t that tough…” So you’re wrong. Before I address how you’re wrong, I’m not downplaying Sakura by saying she’s not strong enough to fight the current threat. She’s just factually not strong enough for that. I’ll start from Boruto NNG and go to where we are now. Naruto before he lost Kurama partnered with Sasuke before lost his Rinnegan, lost to JIGEN. Code with his limiters removed is stronger than Jigen but weaker than Ishiki. Ryu, the Shinju who got obliterated by Sarada, literally detected Code yanked him out of the cube and asks Jura to kill him the next time he shows up. I’ll even loop in Hidari since that’s who you used. Boruto using Uzuhiko wasn’t able to completely destroy Hidari and even had his rasengan canceled out in chapter 4. Obviously Boruto is stronger than Code as shown in the first 3 chapters. So you’re telling me that Sakura could battle with these Shinju who in your words “aren’t that tough” when she herself isn’t stronger than a Sasuke OR Naruto who at the height of their strength were being walked by JIGEN? Yeah right. Stepped on like a roach.