Some things are too awesome to happen, grown up Neji is one of them. Though to answer your question it was as sad as the dog's death in a dog movie(think Marley and me)
Hinatas dad hisashi should have died instead of neji, that would have been enough to get hinata and naruto together. Is hanabi the leader of the hyugga now since hinata is fulltime house wife? It should have been neji