Honestly, I feel like absolutely anything could happen at this point and it doesn't matter how. Which is the opposite of good writing. Each new chapter is like a non sequitur. You lose interest in how new developments occur because it has become meaningless, all these new ideas stuffed into each chapter like cramped writing trying to fit in the margin. It's not about what when it comes to fiction, it's about how. You could write a boring, poorly told story about Gods battling in multiple dimensions and you could write an exciting, well-told story about average human beings overcoming their personal demons. It's all in the execution, and Kishi is failing in that department lately.
I feel like early on, characters won their conflicts through their own merit and skill, it was clever and plausible (in the context of the fictional universe). Things made sense, powerups made sense and were expertly plotted out. Shikamaru's earliest fights are like the best example of what kind of manga this used to be, fights used to be fukking clever. That's gone now.
I don't have the energy to clarify this and elaborate further, I explained it as best as I could.