I love how you call chakra-fucking-eating bugs just a stupid gimmick...

I just want to see what happens next without overthinking his powerup and whatever. Things are actually capable of fanning out in quite a few ways.

The one thing I don't want is Pein chickening out and things returning to status quo (minus konoha, unless they rebuild it or had some kind of genjutsu hax. That would piss me off endlessly)