Asked by @LuisVasquez617: @WhatCultureWWE Will Smackdown ever return to prominence? (Ala attitude era).
Simply put, no. It's hard to see how SmackDown could return to the glory days of the SmackDown six (Messrs Angle, Eddie, Chavo, Edge, Benoit, and Mysterio) unless the draft days and a rivalry between RAW and SmackDown resumes. Thursday nights are pretty much redundant as it is. They're only used to highlight what happened on that week's RAW and to showcase a six-man tag between a collection of WWE's top stars.