Probably because they can get themselves over with the crowd and disrupt the carefully considered long term talentless aura farmer coconut nigger showcase.
Drew and Kross are in their peak storytelling years, doing fuck all. Knight would be a cool babyface, the kind they spent half of Unreal saying is hard to pull off.
Punk is getting EXACTLY what he deserves, though. Checkboxes for his career being ticket by the thinnest technicality.