He also learned to wresle with the idea that 80% to 90% of the time he stepped into a ring, the only people that were watching his match was the live crowd. He wasn't wrestling for people to binge watch 100 matches of his nor a weekly TV viewing experience.
Flair saw wrestling with the mentality he had as a fan. He loved Buddy Rogers and he paid money to watch him do his shtick, Buddy not doing it would left him disappointed as a fan. So he wrestled trying to give the "Nature Boy" experience to the live audience. This became much more prominent after 84', imo. When his Naitch persona was more prominent in a lot of his matches, specially in the "random local territory start challenges the NWA champion" (as previously stated though, he would still change it up depending on his opponent and setting).
Thing was, dude was so damn entertaining he fukked around and ended up finding ways to be engaging even with this "basic" approach. Everything points to Flair not thinking much about doing shyt in the ring that would help him tell a big story that was carefully crafted. He normally had a simple story and found ways to make it entertaining to watch by sprinkling in spots that would pop the crowd. Like I said previously, I usually don't find this approach something that grabs my attention or value highly, but there's something about Flair matches that just feel special to me and way more compelling than a Kurt Angle match, for example (another wrestler that went with that approach more often than not).
