I thought it was a nice change of pace ( for now at least) from the dbz-ish fights everywhere .
I mean :
- naruto fighting the other tailed beasts = big explosions, destroy the scenery etc
- Madara vs kages = big meteors , whole forest created , destroyed scenery etc . Could even count Gaara in there with his sand covering two pages of manga.
I hope you get what i mean by these examples . It's just nice to go back from time to time and see some dodging , jumping around, "low power" abilities. For example the cave is still intacted. If it was any of the above fights , it would of been gone from the first ability someone made haha.