No, it's garbage. What's really going on is that you're choosing to look at one brand through a selectively positive lens while shitting on the other for the same fucking thing. I could do the same thing the other way around.
Not only was the DR classic wasted on thrown together teams, there wasn't even a real follow up or anything that could salvage that shitty booking decision so atleast it would feed the Balor/Joe story moving forward.
If they had done this kind of crap on the main roster(and they have), you people would have cried burial and crucified Vince and bitched and moaned about how the twists are dumb and there is no continuity but just because it's NXT, they get a free pass? Fuck that nonsense.
This is like the time they brought in Joe and then pissed away the KO/Joe feud on weekly TV in a short match that ended in a brawl and lame tag matches that led nowhere. They have no fucking idea how to put together even a compelling one hour weekly wrestling show with so many conveniences like rotating talent and they want to pretend that they're a brand?
It's not "unpredictability" either because everyone who isn't a noob knows that Crews is a temporary challenger who has no chance in hell of beating Balor for the title. A twist just for the sake of a twist is not a good twist.
Corbin has no business working with Rhyno who's way past his prime and beating him means absolutely nothing.
Building stars my ass. Breeze has been ready for ages and has been wasted since Takeover:F4W.
Alexa's another transitional challenger who will job to Bayley and drop back down with absolutely nothing of real value accomplished.
Working with Asuka isn't doing jackshit for Dana and the feud's been booked horribly so far. There's no reason why the 2 on 1 advantage shouldn't be working heavily in the heel team's favor.
NXT always does this kid gloves, no stakes bullshit. They've done it for years. Temporary challengers with results that anyone with half a brain can predict from ten miles away. I'm so sick of their fanboys always peddling this hot garbage while spouting laughable double standard cherry picking biased-ass criticisms that rely on comparing it to the main roster.