You guys keep comparing naruto and gaara and sasuke to people like Itachi and Kakashi and Jiraiya etcetera, those people are just the exceptional jounins, the ones who were like as strong as naruto and sasuke etcetera when they were kids, the Majority of jounins are just slightly above average ninjas

For instance, in jump festa 2004, the villains were a bunch of rogue jounins, and naruto and sasuke kicked their asses... not all jounins are so great