That's worse, though. If you start it in third gear, you can't scale back to first and make it work. If the entire point is that we know they hate each other, they shouldn't need to actually do much to build to anything. If the goal was build up to something, they should've kept them away from each other after Survivor Series to at least get some intrigue. Now they have nowhere to go that feels authentic. Good WWE sports entertainment but bad wrestling booking. Trying to escalate a feud you almost immediately decide to start over is just bad, especially with this. It isn't a hate feud anymore, it's just a wrestling feud with guys who haven't interacted since they were practically different people. Which is fine, but they chose the road of diminishing returns deliberately and immediately made the notion of four months of build feel --the next month and a half alone-- feel like a downhill slide.
Anyone who would complain about them starting it off hot is an idiot. That was literally what everyone watched for and what they expected. Fire. Something out of the gate to make people want to see the hate fight. If people are into just a super watered down version, which will absolutely have good moments, that's fine. But they completely decided to trip themselves and it's hurt the longevity unless it escalates immediately. To be honest it's done more disservice by having everything be so telegraphed into it being a certainty for the biggest show instead of a possibility. The whole thing just will never get back the most important moment back.
