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Kishimoto has shown Naruto to have developed into a more clever, thoughtful shinobi. That is by design. I think Kishi sometimes introduces too many hair-brained moments to be consistent with the character development, though. Having seen his recent depictions of Hashirama in flashbacks, IMO this may just be Kishimoto's style for showing humility (i.e. goof ball moments/comments = humility in a powerful shinobi). Not 100% across the board, though, because Itachi showed humility in a completely different fashion. So I guess just some of the "brighter" characters (brighter here referring to lightness of character and NOT intelligence).