those wrestlers did NOT have to sign with WWE.
many of these wrestlers shat on WWE then re-signed with them.
Wrestlers should be going to WWE to as a way to get their bank accounts right and to get retirement money. All that "passion" shyt gonna be for other places. You make "runs" there if you're not Cena/Orton/Reigns status. You treat WWE like Matt Hardy did, get your run in, get your paper and leave, and leave the door open.
but saying WWE hoarded talent implies these people had no choice. I'm not going to sit up here feeling sorry for people that all took that pic with HHH on signing day.
I thought maybe I was crazy...

We all been watching wrestling for years, I don't know why people are in this thread acting brand new... yeah it's a bad time to be let go. But it ain't like any of these people signed a contract not knowing that someday, for any reason or no reason at all, they just might get released. Kinda how the wrestling business has gone for as long as we been watching.