>>16334397Well everything can be done well if the booking is good, but this was 1995, it likely wouldn't have been layered in the slightest and he would've just been the good old southern boy Dustin Rhodes, same as he was in WCW.
As for why people seem to shit on Goldust these days, I think that in smark circles people always like to pretend to be experts. Like "Pfft, I watched Dustin's work as 'The Natural', unlike you, you poser, he was much better.", same as a hipster denouncing a band that gets popular for selling out.