I think the creative is last on the list on why people are calling it the "Ruthless Depression Era".
WWE got a lot of good will back in 2022-2024 only for 2025 to come and...
Mark Shapiro publicly saying their goal is to actively price out families and to follow the UFC model of pricing for single adult males.
The entire Travis Scott debacle.
John Cena's botched retirement tour, which began with the Travis Scott debacle.
$30 to watch PLE's with 5 matches and an hour of commercials.
Snatching Wrestlemania out from under the already announced New Orleans to go back to Las Vegas for the 2nd year in a row because Vegas offered more money to break their deal with New Orleans.
Nick Khan publicly saying they now charge cities millions of dollars to bring shows to them because they realized they could actually do it when he saw UFC doing it. So now not only do fans get to pay outrageous ticket prices, their taxes get to pay for the event to even come to the damn city. Apparently they charged San Diego $5 million just for Survivor Series to come there this month.
Royal Rumble going to Saudi, Wrestlemania 2027 going to Saudi. Saudi Arabia is about to have 4 PLE's a year.
These are just a few off the top of my head that I typed out in a couple minutes. I'm sure there's plenty more I'm forgetting. Oh and my personal one, Paul "matches don't matter" Levesque making movies instead of wrestling shows.