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8. Impromptu Matches Are Still The Norm More Than The Exception
If you're prone to enjoying your chosen hobbies with an analytical eye or just capable of critical thought in general, WWE's presentation of professional wrestling has been fundamentally broken for decades.
Regardless of what it isn't in 2022, everybody within the company lost of sight of what it was supposed to be a long, long time ago. An edition of Raw or SmackDown is supposed to be a live emulation of a sporting show that ultimately becomes an entertainment one due to the wins and losses not being on the up-and-up. A silent contract between audience, performers and promotion has existed to support this in the decades since kayfabe was shattered, and everything makes sense accordingly.
And at a fundamental level, that is why matches out of nowhere from the "spontaneous" decisions made by an authority figure or dreamt up by the wrestlers themselves simply shouldn't exist. There shouldn't be space on a fully booked show for them!
It encourages creative laziness too - the October 24th Monday Night Raw had one match announced for the bulk of the week before the broadcast, and even that had been carefully disguised as a non-title one. This is unacceptable for a three hour show, or certainly if the viewer is expected to have any respect for themselves or their own valuable time.