If the ninjas are so strong then why are they listening to the feudal lord, the daimyo? Like...

>An individual with those powers would just lead as a single ruler.
Nobody would listen to someone like that. Every person would literally try to kill them or defy them at every turn, and unless they could teleport throughout the entire world and manually execute every single dissident to their global hegemony, there's no way they could prevent people from just abandoning them en masse without just slaughtering all of humanity. There's no "rule" for shit like that outside of extremely poorly written fiction.

The reality is that the world building of naruto was never very developed, we almost never saw how Land of Fire worked outside of Konohagakure

Good point, Julius Caesar.

Because the daimyo were there first. Before Hashirama the ninja clans were just large families being hired as mercs, it was only after did they settle down in villages. Ninja villages performed a coup is how you end up with shitholes like the Sound and Rain villages. Would you trust Naruto with the economy?

Ah yes because the people always throw off their oppressive overlords in our world. They never let themselves be used as a slave class by a singular dictator. Making that dictator the single most deadly person on the planet capable of killing thousands with nothing more than some hand movements would actually just make them worse dictators, you are so right. And no one ever mentioned a global hegemony, you brought that into it and I'm throwing it out.

Some have the power to erase armies, they call it nukes. Why do they listen to anyone?
>inb4 b-but nukes don't launch themselves, they need people maintenance and someone building them
Madara and Hashirama didn't grow on a vacuum. No one killed them while they were young. They couldn't rule alone either, someone would need to put food on their table. Someone would need to heal them if they get sick. Someone would need to protect them while they sleep. They're powerful, but they aren't literal gods. No man rules alone.
Opressive overlords have key supporters, and at the same time those key supporters have their own key supporters and so on. You need at least 3% of the population on your side to rule, otherwise society collapses. The only dictators that can overcome that rule are the leaders of resource rich countries that can use a foreign workforce to trump their own population, and even then they're usually unstable regimes that are always on the brink of collapse.

Where the fuck do you get the idea I said they would rule without a support structure of underlings? This is about why the kages kowtow to the fucking Daimyos instead of just ruling the countries themeselves. Anything outside of that scope you extrapolated yourself and are arguing with fucking air

The irony on this is that Caesar got killed fairly quickly after grabbing power. He had the people (or a good amount of people, at least) on his side and he also had most of the military, yet he got killed anyway by old ass senators with daggers nonetheless.

Augustus understood how the game was played better than his foster dad. He was the one of the longest reigning roman emperor and he died of old age.

Congratulations, you now know why the Emperor of Japan was reduced to little more than a figurehead to be controlled during the sengoku era.

>This is about why the kages kowtow to the fucking Daimyos instead of just ruling the countries themeselves
Because military juntas don't work most of the time. The skillset you need to get good at military stuff doesn't translate well into ruling countries. At best the military dictatorship colapses under its own weight and gets replaced in a couple of months, at worst they're able to hold power by ruling based on terror and fear and their country goes to complete shit in less than a generation

I mean, the Rain is literally the Belgium of Naruto, being sandwiched between the Fire, Earth and Wind.