I geniunely never understand what people see in him when they say he's one of the greatest wrestlers of his era or shit like that.
I don't think he's trash, but he's just average at everything, maybe he's decent with the mic but that's it, not like he's going to deliver great promos, he just can defend himself with a mic.
He's not a good storyteller, technical wrestler, he's not even a good flippy guy. For me he's the definition of vanilla midget. I don't even mind his size, because some of my favorite wrestlers are not even big, but I don't know, he's just not exciting to watch in any way. He's also not one of those guys that while they are not stars or potential stars, you know that they are reliable workers and won't steal the show but won't botch either, so idk.
So yeah, his AEW run has been shit. In NXT he was better but not exciting, he just was really lucky to be liked there and in result he was protected.