Wow. I realize that you are completely correct, here. I guess that it was all too uninteresting to remember. There was no major villan in the vast majority of the story arc. Hardy is not Anderson or Angle. He is not a lot of guys who can take a minimalist plot like that and make it exciting. He is a cartoon character. This is not a rib. I like cartoon characters. But those guys need a nemesis. The nemesis (if a heel) needs lackies. Think how easy it would have been to build credibility if he had to take the title off of someone who had three minions to send to weaken Jeff, then to help their boss cheat. The BFG series was the wrong place for this. They had been building Storm toward a BFG victory for well over a year. They just inserted hardy into the storyline when he started to mention a possible WWE offer. His rise should have been his own story, instead of a hijacking of someone else's. I do not blame Hardy for this. He did nothing wrong, or even badly. TNA screwed up by punishing Hardy for a year and using the BFG series as a patch of sorts. It was really bad planning.
But, no. I didn't miss any episodes of impact, or even any PPVs. I just forgot about all that because TNA never gave me any reason to care.