Broken Matt Hardy In WWE - What Went Wrong?
The production was apparently a collaboration between Hardy himself and WWE's own staffers, but the orders dished out to Michael Cole to belligerently discredit it before it even aired signposted the longterm future of the act. It did at least sink heel Bray Wyatt definitively - he was thrown into to the "Lake Of Reincarnation" but in a very WWE move, didn't actually re-emerge from it. It was in keeping with how the company had ruined the gimmick in almost record time - there was no coming back from the damage already done.
Wyatt's rebirth on the WrestleMania pre-show alongside Matt offered him the first glimmer of light in nearly five years, and the pair going on to scoop Tag Team Title gold was at least a nod that McMahon saw a semblance of money in the madness. Not the sort of cash worth investing in another trip to Hardy's Compound, mind. Those days were over before they'd started, and a need for Matt to take time off to heal his literally broken body put paid to the gimmick too.
Much like the 'The Deleters Of Worlds', this piece has no happy ending, nor really any conclusion beyond the painfully pragmatic. When it comes to Matt Hardy’s Broken Universe, Vince McMahon assumed CONTROL, before eventually ALTering and DELETING it with the dexterity of a teenage fan looking to fix the virus his thirsty search for Paige videos left behind. Bray Wyatt might yet again be saved with a hard reset, but Matt Hardy - broken or otherwise - may now be permanently shut down.