It was always inevitable that Ibushi would get stuck just like Naito did. It's what happens when you delay your booking for 3 years
it was said plenty of times before, WK was either going to be "finally Naito get it's/Naito got fukked again he'll never get it again" or "they went with the hot hand with Ibushi/Kota got Naito'd".
To be fair though, just like Naito, unless he suffers a career ending injury, Kota will get a big title win eventually, will it have the same impact it would've had this year? who knows.
At this point I just hope that once Gedo finally pulls the trigger on Kota, it's not at the expense of delaying Shota