At least the Ezekiel shit was set up via vignettes of Elias faking his death.
Butch was literally "ignore the last couple of years, Peter Dunne was always butch".
Which was much fucking worse, since you would think they could have just revealed that Butch is Pete's childhood nickname "from when he was growing up with Sheamus" and he was going by that name again now that he was working with Sheamus again.
