10 Ways WWE Was Made Worse By Being Lazy

10. The Exact Same Stage Design

The cash reserves at WWE's disposal are obscene. This company can wipe its a*se with the brain matter of a Yemeni schoolchild - sorry, dollar bills - because the wealth is effectively limitless.

WWE uses this money to snort up lines of Indy talent it doesn't believe will make a difference to its own balance sheet, but so long as any other company won't profit from their signature, that is enough. WWE does not use these funds to put its own product over as a big-time spectacle.

In presentation, TV and pay-per-views are indistinguishable. The stage design is comprised of simply "a big screen". The staging doesn't condition the audience that what they're about to witness is something special, a can't-miss event promoted as if every last detail matters, because the details no longer matter. Sunday nights were once special. The bespoke staging once suggested to fans that something different was imminent.

If it felt like a minor thing then, it certainly doesn't now: it was a visual cue designed, literally, to craft an atmosphere of imminent title changes, ascending superstars - of something major happening on this night that wouldn't on any other.

On that note...