The truth of the matter is that the Creative Team sucks and the only way anyone can muster a good thing about them is if they narrow the picture and only focus on the slightest detail.
For example, one of the posters said that they are versatile and change things up like when Brodus spoiled that he was crushing Morrison that night. But usually, when WWE tries to change things up due to spoilers, they screw things up. They didn't want Batista vs. Cena to be a Loser Leaves WWE match because of the spoilers on the internet, so they removed the stipulation and had Batista quit for no reason the next night. They had Matt Hardy inexplicably be the guy who attacked Jeff because the internet had spoiled it was supposed to be Christian. It was also rumored that Jack Swagger won the Money in the Bank match because the actual winner, Drew McIntyre, was spoiled a week or two in advance.
Another example is someone saying that Mark Henry is being booked correctly. Yet they don't mention the fact that he just got jobbed to Zack Ryder and an Attitude Adjustment in under two minutes on Raw. They also don't mention that he is feuding with The Big Show and having the most boring matches instead of letting Henry feud with Sheamus or Bryan so he can have good World title matches.
The only way you can fish for a compliment about the WWE Creative Team is if you begin ignoring all their faults which are just too colossal to just ignore. This year alone we got:
1) The ridiculous No Confidence storyline with Triple H that went nowhere
2) They made John Laurinitis, the worst person on the mic in all of WWE, the General Manager.
3) The whole Jerry Lawler vs. Michael Cole feud
4) The whole "Michael Cole challenge" crap
5) Hornswoggle winning a battle royal and getting the ability to talk out of the blue
6) Brie Bella winning the chance to be able to kiss a superstar
7) The terrible John Cena "This is Your Life" segment
8) The Ezekiel Jackson Intercontinental Championship reign
9) The inexplicable disappearance of the Anonymous Raw GM
10) The idiotic storyline between The Great Khali and Jinder Mahal
11) The never-ending season of NXT
12) John Cena "choosing" The Rock as his partner after it was announced weeks in advance on WWE.com and The Rock had confirmed it on Twitter
13) The countless plotholes such as who lowered the cell, who was behind the conspiracy, what was the Nexus' bigger picture, etc.
14) Kevin Nash texted himself...
The list goes on and on. The creative team is a bunch of imbeciles. We're all still WWE fans, but the truth is, if the WWE was being written by much more competent writers, we would enjoy the product much more. Instead, they act as if we have low-attention spans and can't notice that we're being treated to second-rate crappy writing.
John Piermarini wrote on his blog that he pitched Beth Phoenix vs. The Great Khali for WrestleMania. The storyline would have been that Beth wanted to kiss him. KHALI VS. BETH, people! If that's not further proof that the Creative Team is insane, I don't know what is.
So they're bad because when the internet ruins things they try to fix them?
Also, Henry jobbing to ryder wasn't bad, he was wounded. He won't lose steam. Plus he's been booked to have shown weakness for at least a month (getting DQed against show and running from sheamus before that). Also, if you think Show vs Henry is boring, you don't understand wrsetling and should probably go watch 2 indy guys in baggy pands no sell headdrops for 30 minutes.
1)the no confidence storyline lead to HHH bein ousted. So....yea, it led somewhere
2)Ace is supposed to be dry on the mic THAT'S HIS FUCKING CHARACTER, IT'S WHY PEOPLE BOO HIM, he's the typical emotionless corporate kiss ass.
3)....was very over, so you're wrong, book like a businessman, not like a mark
4)....was very over, again, read #3
5) Okay, so him being able to talk out of the blue is unrealistic? So is him not being able to talk. shit, for that matter, so is pivoting on your right foot, grabbing the top rope, leaning, then running back at a guy when you're irish whipped into the ropes. So is the idea of giant fighting robots. However, WWE stays in the realm of reality they've created. At least no one has birthed hands this year.
6) Who even remembers this? Non-issue.
7) Yea, that was a bad segment, but I'm guessing it was purposely bad since it led to Rock coming out and a bunch of promo jokes on it afterwards. Even if it wasn't planned, they worked with it and made it fit.
8) Why was this bad? Rhodes beating him made Rhodes a bigger deal because zeke is a big guy.
9) Yea, they do this shit all the time. That one does kinda bug me. however, it may tie into a story later on and make sense. we don't know the whole story.
10) They tried and the superstars failed. It's not heavily featured anymore, they're doing their job. If you bat a guy cleanup and he hits .200, then you move him to 8th in the order and only against lefties, that's all you can ask a manager to do. Same thing here.
11) is online only is it not? And it gives guys a little bit more exposure than they would have otherwise have gotten. it's nto like it's taking up time on Raw
12) I thought they had only confirmed he would be at survivor series and in an elimination tag, not with Cena? So no, they didn't advertise "Rock and Cena as a team".
13) This is pro wrestling, not an "best picture" movie. the WWE has less plotholes than most summer blockbusters. Not only that, but a lot of what you said could still be explained.
14) So what? It was a bit of a letdown that it wasn't someone else, but it fits the story and isn't impossible. It's not like he got himself pregnant or something insane.
The Khali/Beth thing....."further proof"? Further proof that someone said something that supposedly happen that they DIDN'T FUCKING DO? Ever hear of brainstorming? sometimes the best ways to get creative ideas flowing is to just spitball and throw anything out, unfiltered. So he could have just thrown that out. Sure you'll be a douche and say "well still, the fact that he even said it" but that's not how brainstorming works. You don't restrict any ideas and then once all the ideas are you, you narrow it down. It helps release creative ideas and a lot of good ideas can come off bad ones.
As much as you said "the only way you praise them is if you pick out small pieces"....it seems that only if you're pessimistic about everything and nitpick everything, and look for negatives that you think they're bad. Most of your points weren't very good ones. Maybe you should stop wrestling if stuff like Hornswaggle bugs you.
Also, WWE is almost always near the top of any metric of popularity. At the end of the day, that means they're doing their job. If you analysed booking in the attitude era the way you just did, your list would be a lot longer.
Also, most viewers DO have low attention spans. Have you been living under a rock? It's like that across the board. especially with lower income (less educated) people that the audience typically consists of.
system with Santino, Hornswoggle and the Bellas 'comedy' segments.