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People forget the times JR shat on WWE matches.
He's maintained this for years: JR calls the match reactively, without foreknowledge, as if he's a member of the audience.
If JR is hyping up trash the audience recognises as trash, he will have a disconnect between himself and the audience and can't do his job, which is to keep the audience engaged.
Relating to them is by far the easiest way to do that, and that means he has to react the way the audience does.
If it's shit, he calls shit. If it's a hit, you get another classic JR bit.
An engine can't run without fuel.
AEW talent can't fuel his engine, and looking at the ever diminishing audience and ticket sales they're not fueling the crowd either.