>>14848401You have to appreciate how the sausage is made to appreciate 2.0.
You can have your opinions about "Meltzer stars", but 2.0 literally didn't even have that going for it at the beginning. It had precisely ONE blue chip prospect in Bron Breaker, a couple holdovers Black and Gold (some even longer than that), some literal who's from when ROH was on it's last legs, a bunch of NIL projects, along with the odd main roster demotions. This is about as close to ground zero as you can get without being a yardtard trampoline fed. And if by some miracle you were good enough to get through this, your reward was going to die on the main roster with a dementia riddled Vince. So on top of there being "no stars" there was also "no future". You had to be willing to watch a lot of a shit to hopefully find a bright spot here so buckle up, it's gonna be a long ride.
Fast forward to where we are now, you can clearly see that era had the stuff. Bron is living up to the hype but all of the people you listed came out of nowhere. Grayson Waller went from a walking shitpost to the main roster in a year and doesn't look like a fish out water. Dave is already saying that Tiffany Stratton has the potential to the best North American women's wrester ever. Trick Williams went from being an inside joke on this board to a possible main event talent in the blink of an eye. Andre Chase went from being a throwaway character at the In-Dex wedding to one of the most beloved factions in wrestling. We've got fucking mob kino in 2024. There are people on this show that are actually worth giving a shit now and it all started in 2.0. And frankly just looking at the names there, more people from this era will make and stay on the main roster than any point of NXT, including the very beginning of the network smark bait show.