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Honestly, I really don't like how soulless and dry they are, they're so homogenized and corporate that you could expect to see these sets on any major TV event out of Hollywood.
Don't get me wrong, It's cool to see them using what would've cost an absolute treasury back in '05, and some camera shots with today's are pretty good and fit today's sets perfectly, as was by design.
For me primarily, the nostalgia for Standard def. starts to strike really hard when you realize how much effort went into crafting individual stages for the main shows, and the PPVs at the height of the Attitude and RA era. they took advantage of the limitations of the time, and crafted them around 3D form, the function of lighting, and keeping the arenas well lit, bloom and emboss for the television viewers, AND modability (the Ruthless Aggression era RAW stage went through many changes).
Both WWE (& TNA) had their best stages in the mid 2000s hands down.
TLDR: Current day is soulless, dry, and corporate, sets pre-2008 were art.
