Nah... that brand split ran its course. 3 hour Raws are exhausting most of the time, but when people were saying to end the brand split, it was inevitable that was what they would've had to do for it to work. Now everybody's saying do a brand split again.
But watching these shows does remind me that as wrestling fans, a lot of us are spoiled now. We grew up watching job matches and occasionally a SNME or Clash of Champions, and thoroughly enjoyed just getting to see stars vs. stars. Then we got to see it every week. Then we got to see it on two shows per week from both companies, and a PPV every month. So now we're harder to impress cause we see shyt every week that we used to only get every couple months. I'm not sayin' I mind but it is funny how now we at the thought of a match like Cena/Taker, but once marked out for shyt like Hacksaw Duggan vs Andre
yeah, it ran it's course back then. But it was necessary b/c of the influx of WCW talent. It's kinda the same thing now with NXT. They're calling ppl up who are established stars in NXT, and then they get buried in mediocrity on the main roster b/c there's too many ppl.
They keep signing all these ppl and they're going to get siphoned into mediocrity of one set of storylines. Plus Smackdown is meaningless at this point, nothing develops on there. I hear ur point, but they need to make full use of their time if they're going to have a farm-system. So to me, you need to have two sets of storylines going.