I miss when the bijuus were mysterious and super strong. Now all this rikudou chakra crap messed up the power balance.
Agreed. They hit the DBZ factor. Cranking up the power level of friend/foe in every story arc too far too many times until the final power levels of the protagonists & antagonists were just too high.
Kindah like how in DBZ Frieza was supposed to be the STRONGEST in the universe & SS Goku barely managed to defeat him (by making him cut himself in half) and even that didn't work. Then one android alone trumped Frieza, Semi-perfect Cell trumped an android, post HBTC Vegeta trumped semi-perfect cell & Perfect Cell did the same to Vegeta.
How strong is Cell compared to someone of such an ENORMOUS power level like Frieza? Fodderizes him. Way too big a change. They did the same in Naruto from the beginning to end of part 2.