actually it isn't take a look at Kimimaro and pain. Sure he surprise them but most of the clone get wrecked and that was with either he had equal or superior strength.
I already agreed with Kimimaro, but he's hardly a good example. Kimi has Jonin to kage tier hype/feats and uses a strong KKG tailor made for Taijutsu.
Pain fought Naruto's clones exactly once in cqc and that was two of them jumping at him, not much to take away from that. Base Naruto on his own fended off Deva Path.
Which opponents are these that Naruto was either equal to or even superior?
There are no fights where he overwhelmed and totally beat anyone equal to him with clone spam.
Now that the competition limited his power and and have equal strength you think he has a fighting chance against anyone here.
Ch1. Naruto that didn't even manage to become a genin vs Mizuki, an experienced Chunin - Mizuki gets stomped by clone spam.
Team 7 vs a team of Ame genin in the forest of death - Naruto did most of the work against the entire team with his clones and lands the finishing blow, despite being nerfed and exhausted.
Naruto vs Neji - Neji gets forced into using Kaiten to defend himself.
Naruto vs Gaara - Transformed Gaara got completely overwhelmed and was forced to use a full Bijuu transformation to deal with the clones.
Naruto vs Sasuke(hospital rooftop) - Sasuke gets overwhelmed after dealing with a few clones and is forced to use Ninjutsu against them.
Kishi himself admitted in an interview that he regrets giving Naruto 1000 shadow clones that early because it's too overpowered.
I never said that Naruto would beat anyone here, I only disagreed with what you said about his clones.