Don't really get the logic of how he's being used from either side.
Malakai should want to be on AEW doing things, having memorable feuds, building his star power and momentum, maybe get a couple PPV main events and title runs. Do something to keep himself in the wrestling buzz like Swerve or MJF or even Atom Smol. Just so that people who care about wrestling will hear something about him from time to time and maybe want to check out what he's doing. Instead he sits at home and does the same stable shit for three years like a retard
For Tony, if this guy wants to just dick around at home all the time and do nothing then at least job him out. Make him feud with Wardlow and have Wardlow no sell his spooky shit and beat the fuck out of him, make the stable turn on him and kill him, make him lose to these no name geeks Tony pretends is a big deal, make him at least give you some value for the money he's getting paid (probably a milly or close) or tell him to fuck off and get fired for refusing to work. No idea why Tony lets his roster just buttfuck him and sit at home collecting paychecks, fucking Rusev going to WWE isn't going to help them or hurt AEW so get rid of the cuck