I only take the anime half-serious, it feels more like fillers than canon, simply because the academy students seem to have genin-level skills already. Like seriously, remember how Naruto and co. were when they graduated from the academy? Most of them knew only the basic stuff, and they didn't even learn about walking on wall/tree until Kakashi taught them that in the Land of Wave mission, let alone walking on water. Compare that to the academy students in Boruto's generation, they all are learning seriously "advanced stuff", were already tested on walking on wall, already learnt walking, even fighting on water. And all the Kages were like, "kids today aren't as reliable as in the past". Like really? The academy kids of the current generation are doing more sh*t than the average genin of the previous one and y'all think they're worse than ninjas in the past? How?! Just bloody how?! That inconsistency alone makes the anime feel like fillers and not canon.
