I just can't get into the manga
Ikemoto's newer characters don't fit Naruto at all and he isn't good at drawing the older ones. They're not near-unrecognizable like they were at the start of the series, but they're still pretty bad and absolutely unacceptable if you compare them to Kishi. I think the biggest offense is how lame the fights are. It's just page after page of uninteresting panels, uninteresting choreography, and speedlines. He doesn't even do double page spreads. He isn't writing the manga and they're letting him do it monthly. He's got quadruple the time Kishi with Naruto so it makes no sense for it to look like that.
The anime has a lot of problems too.