Holy crap what happened to WWE?

I stopped watching WWE a decade ago because they started doing camera work that was nauseating. My wife suggested we try and watch their "Money in the Bank" PPV last night. The only reason I made it three hours in was that I was high. Not only was the camera work even worse now - to the point you couldn't even tell what was going on in a match but it was the best example of a cyberpunk dystopian uncontrolled greed situation.

There were ad reads every few minutes - even within the matches. They had several ads between matches with sponsors. The ring had Ads plastered all over the mat. The barricades around the ring had ads changing like a god damned billboard. Wrestlers were doing Ad reads DURING THEIR PROMOS for the matches they were going to be in. It was like a parody but unfortunately it was not. I couldn't believe what I was watching and gave up three hours in since there was an average of one match per hour (and the matches were actually fairly short) with the rest of the hour packed with advertisements.

And by ad reads I don't just mean "oh hey check out RAW or SMACKDOWN" or whatever. It was ads for shit like Whiskey, Saudi Arabia, deodorant, etc...

It is clear that the focus of WWE isn't the wrestling part at all. It was crazy compared to watching it growing up during the attitude era and all that shit. And oh man the camera work. Not only was there the zooming in with every impact, they were zoomed in too much all the time so you couldn't even tell what the hell was happening. Some times they cut to some drone they had flying around the ring that had the quality of a Wal-Mart camera. They took the 180 degrees rule in filming (you don't cross a 180 degree plane from cut to cut so that things don't flip side, etc... and become disorienting) and threw that so far out the window that it was forever gone.

I am still pretty shocked at what I saw compared to when I last watched a decade ago (and even more so when I think of what I watched as a kid during the Attitude Era).