In all honesty what I'm hoping is that the name change was done in collaboration with kishi in concurrence with future developments in the manga.

I'm sorry to mention the dreaded M word, but manga readers should have a good idea as to how the whole Hurricane thing is relevant towards what's going on in the manga and how it can potentially influence future story arcs. I'm excited, probably the most excited I've been about naruto in a good long while.

Don't see what some of you are stressing about, name change doesn't mean that the series is changing drastically.