10 Reasons CM Punk Should Stay Retired And Never Return To WWE 3

3. The Creative Direction Is Stagnant

The WWE product just isn’t all that inspiring right now. Prior to SummerSlam and Brock Lesnar’s victory over John Cena, it felt like we were mired in the same old status quo, with Cena as the obstacle-overcoming champion who continuously defies the odds, secondary champions who mean nothing, tag teams that build a little momentum and then get broken up within a year and 50/50 booking that sees everyone else get frustrating start and stop pushes.
And don’t even get us started on the worn out evil authority figure angle that’s been done to death, resurrected and done to death again. It’s like wrestling writers have gotten so entrenched in that trope that they don’t know how to book anything else. That’s not a knock against the work Triple H and Stephanie McMahon have done as The Authority; they’ve been on fire. But we’ve seen it before. Many, many times.
You could argue that CM Punk choosing to return during such a creative rut would give the company a much-needed shot in the arm. But for a guy like Punk who prefers to be heavily invested in everything his character is involved in, it would probably have the opposite effect, leading to Punk becoming increasingly frustrated with his direction and then we’re right back where we started.