>>14042231As someone who started watching AEW for Phil and stopped watching weekly when he got fired, he's obviously at fault for being a volatile schizo who blows up at the slightest provocation. But he was also correct in many ways about how the backstage environment at AEW fosters bad habits in people and Dynamite makes the results obvious every week with seemingly no plans to change.
He and Cody both cared about week to week storytelling while also pushing for indie style workrate as AEW's bread and butter. They knew you could have both, yet both AEW dickriders and detractors seem to reject the notion entirely. Without the instincts of guys like them, AEW feels less like an alternative to WWE (which I can't stand unless guys like Cody and Punk themselves, Gunther or the Rock are on screen) and more like a graveyard where all my favorite wrestlers from other promotions like NJPW go to lose years of their careers to bad booking and have actual dream matches of mine (Bryan vs Shibata) ruined with zero build on an average Saturday.
