Sakura's basically the Naruto equivalent of Vegeta. The creators hate both of them (because Kishimoto prefers magic eye bullshit and Toriyama pulls new transformations out of Goku's ass by the microsecond), and yet both Sakura & Vegeta have their fans (though Vegeta kind of has it worse in that regard because his fanbase is mostly full of fanboys that give Toriyama the "Waluigi in Smash" treatment in regards to having Vegeta win a battle with the big bad of an arc. I mean, to be fair, Vegeta almost KILLED CELL with the Final Flash, so props there).