The Alliance storyline gets a lot of shit but it was a guilty pleasure of mine. I get why everybody hated it but I still loved it anyway.
When you think about it, yeah all the major WCW names like Sting, Hogan, Goldberg, Flair, Nash, Hall, Steiner being involved could've made it great but would it have really worked tbh? You had some huge egos on both sides of the pond that would've refused to lay down for one another, Sting didn't wanna look bad, Austin didn't want to work with Hogan, so would he have even been involved? I couldn't really imagine Sting & Goldberg working as heels nor do I think they would've wanted to come in as heels, getting booed by the fans. WCW experimented on the both of them at one time but they never clicked as heels cause they were just too big as fan favourites. With all those guys involved, they would've overshadowed other big names like Booker T, Scott Steiner, DDP cause you can't get em all in the main event scene, so they would've likely been relegated back to the mid-card division. None of them wanted WCW to look bad, but in the end WCW would've looked bad anyway, because they would've lost the war to the WWF at Survivor Series & suffered the embarrassment of getting driven out of the company before they were brought back in somehow. I don't think anybody thinks about these things when they talk about how great the storyline could've been with all of them taking part. A little part of me is actually glad the way it turned out because all these guys, including the WWF guys, would've been a pain for Vince to deal with, and I don't think he would have been able to make everybody look as good as they wanted to. If they all were involved, I still think people would've found the Invasion shit, with their complaints being that Vince "made em all look bad". Those guys being involved would've been a no win situation for Vince, imo.
If there's anything I would change about the Invasion without bringing in all those guys, it would've been to keep DDP as a serious player, the WWE blew it with not having DDP vs. Stone Cold or DDP vs. The Rock, dream matches everybody wanted to see for ages to see who had the better Cutter and to see who was the true People's Champion. I would've had Big Show jump to the Alliance since he was a former WCW main eventer, so he would've been another big name to the team. I'm also thinking they maybe could've had X-Pac jump to the Alliance too since he was actually bigger in his WCW days than most of the WCW guys in the Alliance, so his name in the team probably could've helped a bit especially if they would had given him a push, but I dunno. My changes wouldn't have made any difference to the storyline, they're just something I personally would've liked to have seen happen.