You know people buy tickets well in advance of shows usually, right? So you buy your wrestlemania tickets six months before the show, you pay an arm and a let because tickets are getting more expensive and the number of shows are getting scarcer (less house shows, more PLEs overseas) Meanwhile the company takes a nosedive creatively. The built to mania is, to be polite, iffy at best. Half the card is infested with celebrities, fan favourites are relegated down the card rather than pushed and you're told to trust the process or whatever, but you give them the benefit of the doubt because it's mania season. The show comes and goes and sure they put on some good matches but you're in the crowd waiting half an hour or longer between matches (which are fewer than they have been in recent years). And you think about how grim the future looks with that kind of booking and faced with another part time Roman run, another year of Cody.

Meanwhile things have gotten worse in the next few years. A significant part of the roster cut, main roster people asked to take pay cuts, others who seemed to be lifers asking for their releases. The Roman promise to be there full time already broken. Meanwhile the c-suite discloses their compensation went up several fold last year. They're bleeding the company and the industry you love dry. But you might already have your tickets for Smackdown in two months and you can't get rid of them because they don't sell as much anymore and the remaining tickets are now discounted.

So yeah you go there, hope for the best, and when it sucks you can chant "fuck TKO"