10 Biggest Fan Complaints WWE Don’t Actually Want To Fix
2. "They Were Better In NXT!"
They were.
WWE don't care.
The hours that need filling (and just that - filling) are serviced with beloved talent from TakeOvers and favourites from Full Sail. That's not to say they're able to survive and thrive on the main roster despite often looking like proverbial 'can't-miss' prospects before making it there. Very few do in fact, without experiencing some sort of Raw or SmackDown makeover that dumps them like refurbished laptops once capable of dazzling with state-of-the-art engines before mechanisms moved the goalposts completely.
The lack of a model that actually definitively works is part of the problem. Asuka was a recent success story until the company elected to take away her undefeated streak. There may be no way to return to a halcyon yesterday for the 'Empress Of Tomorrow'. The Authors Of Pain were in revelatory form towards the end of their NXT run but have since gone A.W.O.L on Monday Night Raw.
A disappearing act is at least more palatable than whatever the f*ck The Revival are currently being instructed to portray. Arguably the finest tag team to come through the system in the last decade have already been diminished beyond recognition. Cogs in a broken machine, they've no chance of delivering fists or flips despite proffering countless incredible efforts over the last few years. Their job now (unlike then, but possibly forever) is to job. They fulfil a purpose like everybody else, even if that purpose once looked to rocket far and above the bland chasing pack.