Just a quick thought on this before I forget.
There are a lot of things about WWE that you can focus on when you talk about why it's not been great television for a long time. For me, the thing that drives me the most nuts--even moreso than bad storylines that go nowhere and make no sense--is when the characters that perform the storylines are bad.
I think Seth Rollins has proven over the years that he's a very talented individual, both when it comes to the physicality of wrestling and the character work. He can, at times, be believable. That's mostly what I'm looking for. Even if the storylines stretch one's limits when it comes to suspending your disbelief, I at least want the characters themselves to come off as plausible (though "plausible" in WWE terms has, at times, meant everything from An Actual Olympic Athlete to Superhuman Graveyard Biker Man With Power Urn).
Seth Rollins is currently playing this gigantic douche-bag character. Dresses like an asshole, acts like an asshole, just an overall unpleasant man to be around. It's fine on paper, but the way he's playing it involves him just punctuating everything he does with this weird, too-long, too-loud, maniacal laugh. It just doesn't fit, and it (along with a few other things about the way the character speaks) makes him come off like a high-school drama student, overplaying the role in ways that just don't make sense. It's one thing to "play it broad" because, ultimately, you're playing in front of a live arena or whatever, but I just feel like no human would ever truly behave that way and it breaks an already pretty-much broken thing... uh... even more brokener, I guess.
I just... had to get that out, I guess.
