I have been hoping for too long now. But I have DN, Naruto, PoT, etc. to tide me over.

Naruto is actually very plotful. Kishimoto doesn't annoy the reader by not finishing things. He follows through. It takes him fifty chapters to do it, true, but you have faith he will get there.

>_> <_< I think he doesn't know himself and is just killing time, perhaps.