According to the original timeline, the fate of the Uzumaki Clan was indeed nearing its end.
Given this clan's immense vitality and chakra reserves, coupled with their unique secret sealing techniques for dealing with tailed beasts, it was hard to say whether the Uzumaki Clan's destruction, like that of the Red Eye Clan, had involved Black Zetsu—the dutiful son—scheming behind the scenes.
Of course, regardless of what secrets lay behind the Uzumaki Clan's downfall, as Naruto's maternal clan, many people were disappointed by Konoha's indifference toward the life and death of its former ally. They used this as ammunition to fiercely criticize the Third Hokage Cabinet led by Sarutobi and Danzo.
The mainstream view was that these two old men had no regard whatsoever for the revolutionary friendship forged by their predecessors. Some even suspected that they had taken advantage of Mito's age and frailty to seize the Uzumaki Clan's inheritance with sinister intent!
As for such arguments, Director Yamada had always found them unconvincing, in both this life and his previous one...
Leaving aside the actual combat performances of First Senju Hashirama and Second Hokage Senju Tobirama, Uzumaki sealing techniques had entered Konoha long before the so-called clan annihilation tragedy.
Even taking a step back, even if the Third Hokage Cabinet truly had entertained such thoughts, the subsequent course of events simply did not match that theory!
As the rulers of a nation, whether through "peaceful evolution" or outright plunder, there were far more sophisticated and reliable ways to steal the fruits of others' labor than scavenging through the ruins of Uzushiogakure!
Without making the major move of establishing a substantive vassal relationship at the diplomatic level, or at least issuing a declaration guaranteeing independence before the war or accepting political refugees, the spoils they could actually obtain would