question to anime onlies by manga and anime consumer

so I was talking about Naruto with my friend who is an anime only watcher and he was adamant about Naruto saying that Sakura was his girlfriend to Minato but I said that "it was studio pierrots general dickery and they fucked up the panel by reducing Naruto's indecisiveness while changing his expression and giving Naruto a clear answer moment and shoving the NaruSaku ship as they usually do" and my friend refused to believe until I showed him the panels, and I was wondering do anime onlies still not know that the anime studio had an agenda and was relentlessly pushing NaruSaku by doing these sorts of things and adding unnecessary fillers similar to what they did to Ichihime with IchiRuki from Bleach too ?