I tried to watch the ocean cut of Naruto, which basically edits each arc down, cutting out unnecessary flashbacks and recaps, along with intros and intros, making it into basically a series of films.

It's still 40 films worth of content and 3+ hours per film sometimes (I think, it's been a while), and the pacing is still absolutely fucked which is a symptom of basically every episodic anime when binged.