Byakugan seems more suited for stealth and scout type missions. It doesnt seem like its all that powerful in fights. I mean we have seen the Byakugan beaten a number of times. Naruto beat neji that spider dude "cant remember his name" pretty much found out the weakness and had the Byakugan countered. He only lost because he got careless. Hinata got beat down by pein. Unless theres some hidden potential we havent seen outta the Byakugan like some sort of MS but a Byakugan form i dont see it helping that much other than covert missions
you seemed to just throw hinata away as weak against pein but if you look at it we have not seen anyone that could have peaten him cept naruto. we know that madara is weak and was probably weaker than pein.
also that sound guy kidomaru was a genious and was the perfect match against neji. shikamaru and tsunade both agreed that chunin and jonin were needed but none were available.
the sound 4 were high level ninja and on top of that they had the curse mark.
also the byakugan is more than just a scouting tool. using the byakugan you can see your opponents every attack apart from that small blind spot. you can also see the opponents chakra and chakra network. you can see through most attacks but that is based upon the users skill, and react in the most cost effective way.
the byakugan is more powerful than the normal sharingan in reading movements and seeing chakra the only problem is that the sharingan keeps getting upgrades and can copy most jutsu.
i mean MS then the EMS now the ability to put your sharingn on the moon!!!
nothing has changed for the byakugan since its introduction in the fight between neji and hinata. it needs some development. i think kishi is planing on developing it soon. i mean when hinata jumped in to fight pein it pretty much demanded that it needed development. and when Ao turned out to have the byakugan leads me to believe that he really is planning to develop it. even if it is just him fighting danzo and loosing barely just to show that it is not as weak as we think.