How AEW Has Actually Answered Its Biggest Complaint
The camera isn't invisible, and several measures are taken to address that.
Most every promo segment is framed outwardly as a way to promote a match, not to set one up for later that night, which is crucial in deepening that sense of immersion; time, like so much else, is accounted for. Not once have AEW forced its audience to ask what would be happening, if Wrestler X didn't happen to interrupt Wrestler Y. Wrestling is showbiz, and the showbiz in AEW is coherent.
Orange Cassidy is emblematic of the "But I wanted real sports!" criticism, and he bats it away. Not once has he interfered with the fabric of traditional pro wrestling kayfabe in AEW; the magic of Orange Cassidy - and if you don't like it, fine, but to fail to understand him is your problem, not AEW's - is that he's among the most strategic and skilled pro wrestlers in the fiction of it. He out-wrestled Cody on the mat during last week's 20 minute draw - another facet, incidentally, of - yes! - AEW's sporting presentation. But ultimately, all of this was never about "sports". It was about creating a better pro wrestling company. For a growing number of people, that is all that matters.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, Ring Of Honor is currently promoting, free of charge, the strictest emulation of wrestling-as-sport through its Pure Title tournament - and it's very, very good.
It's everything these mutants claim to want to watch, and it's incredibly telling that they aren't doing so.