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You haven't fucking addressed a single point I originally made! You jumped onto an aside that I only went on to address why I don't think AEW being successful means what I said doesn't make sense. I didn't even fucking talk about the WWE until scarlet kept bringing it up so I wanted to address why I didn't think his comparison and assessment of the two added up, and even then I specifically said that WWE isn't relevant to AEW's roster being bloated or not to convey that my point was about AEW, not some comparison of it and the WWE. You then jumped on that point and I've been replying to you since. You're literally diverting onto a side point that I specified I didn't think was too relevant so you can bitch at me for responding to you instead of ignoring everything you said to go back to something you never showed any interest in discussion holy shit.

They struggle to even find TV time for a lot of the people they're supposedly high on, large chunks of their roster spend weeks or months at a time doing nothing but the occasional jobber squash on a youtube show where the commentary team doesn't even treat it like it's very serious, they have a ton of factions and some of them are weirdly large as if it's just a way to feature more people, Dynamite tends to move at a break neck pace with pre- and post-match brawls everywhere and cutting from segment to segment super fast so they can squeeze more talent onto each show, they can barely find time for the women's division at all except cramming it in at the last minute (granted that problem is likely caused by more than just roster size), etc. I think it's pretty hard to deny their roster is bloated when they struggle to feature anyone beyond the top stars consistently, give people supposed break out moments only for them to vanish from TV for a while and do so despite a booking philosophy that seems geared towards trying to find reason to fit as many onto a show as they can.

Dark and Elevation don't really help much because neither is watched all that much and both are very heavy on jobber squashes and light on stories, especially story progression for big names. It's just hard to feel like an appearance carries much weight when it's on a show where nothing much of consequence happens. Elevation is like, Main Event/205 Live tier at most for a WWE comparison and Dark is beneath that. I cite the upcoming Rampage because it's televised and it sounds like they intend to treat it at least close to Dynamite in status.

They literally plucked Jungle Boy back and threw him into the swing of things out of nowhere and people went nuts for him all over again. So I don't think there's a tremendous mismanagement of talent, and it's clear they've been biding their time for Rampage, where they get another hour to showcase their talent to a wider audience. Another hour will help them tremendously. But the fact that they can slide in a lot of these guys into Dynamite after them not being featured for a while and they're still getting more bombastic reactions than probably 95% of the WWE guys says a ton.

I do think it's a bit weird to criticize it a ton here since... well, it's working?