>>16414719WWE succeeded at making the brand itself the draw, not the wrestlers. Which is shown even now, you may get a bump for one episode but it never lasts.
Pretty much everyone and their mother had to put Roman over and he only started getting better crowd reactions than x-pac heat or simply boos when he turned heel, a move people wanted for at least several years before it actually happened - but the damage to WWE has been done already with the megapush.
With the amount of shit he got behind his back, he has 0 mainstream appeal and more people know who some random attitude era jobbers are than Roman.