Boruto's dad plothole

Could this man not have literally stopped every major villain in the series up until the Pain clique. I haven't read it in a while but from what i'm getting from my rewatch is that 7th gate is like the ultimate plot weapon and can literally go against tailed beasts

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with 8th gate he would even defeat pain

And die... But at that point of the series it doesn't matter. Every villain would be dead and Madara or Kaguya would never be brought back

He can't. Everything about pain was a big mystery.
Guy can defeat 6 pain corpses and never know Nagato even exists.

would incinerate all the pains

It's not a plot weapon. It's basically just a "kill everything in the immediate vicinity" button.

There are already tons of those. Use it on Tobi? Nope, he phases through. Use it on Pain? Nope, Nagato is still alive somewhere. Use it on Orochimaru? Maybe, but chances are he escapes anyway. Use it on Itachi? Nope, eternally tortured until time runs out.

There's more to winning than just killing people.

but can nagato without any pains do anything (assuming Konan would also be taken care of by Gui or anyone else for that matter)?

that's exactly why Kishi kept him away from the Village during the Pein attack

Shitty writing, any major character can take any villain in the right circumstance.

As powerful as it is it's just taijutsu which is the shittiest thing in Naruto.