No, I'm coming at it from the perspective that it's just a fukking TV show and to expect these dudes to stay in character in their off time so you can suspend your disbelief over grown men fake fighting in tights is absurd and needy as hell.
No, you aren't. YOu're a die-hard. You'll watch no matter what. They don't give a fukk about you because they already got you. They can do just about anything and you'll still watch, so your view on this is extremely skewed.
Damn near EVERYTHING about wrestling is absurd when you look at it in the grand scheme of entertainment/life. Exactly, it's fake fighting with people in tights, so why would you try to apply the same rules to it that you would apply to an actual scripted television series? It's not, it never has been. It's always tried to blur the line between real/fake, athletic competition/entertainment show. If it's as simple and pedestrian as you make it sound, then again, why do you even bother watching?