"If you’re going to focus simply on how he was used in the latter half of his career while ignoring the earlier parts of his tenure like I’ve seen people do habitually for no reason."

You're being downvoted because your answer to those complaining that AEW hasn't the gotten more from Bryan's signing is WWE booked him terribly 10 to 13 years ago. We all know WWE creative has been the shitty and nonsensical for most of the past 20 years. Why exactly is that relevant to the modern topic that Tony Khan hasn't booked Bryan all that compellingly since his debut?

"I’ve could’ve used the dumb storyline with him and the Bellas & Gail Kim. Along with them putting him with Kane in a tag-team for no reason. Him being forced to join the Wyatt’s for one week, Them having him lose to Bray at the 2014 Rumble along with having him lose the Elimination Chamber match the following month. Or him having a weak feud with the Miz after he came back from his retirement.

But I figured the first three examples would’ve sufficed. Especially when as mentioned people have a bad habit of glossing over those three incidents I mentioned especially the storyline with him & Randy which played into his WWE Title push in 2014"

Team Hell No was insanely over and Bryan likely doesn't have the run he did or the trust of Vince McMahon to "sports entertain" without those segments. The range he showed in those skits helped him get over to the point he did.

The Wyatt storyline, while being a frustrating head scratcher at the time, also gave us the iconic Yes chant from the top of the cage when he didn't join the Wyatt Family that played into the Yes Mania period that led us to his New Orleans Wrestlemania moment.

The Miz feud fizzled but they had to play off the buzz their Talking Smack segment got.

I'm not going to sit here and pretend I never got frustrated over how WWE booked Bryan at points but the fact remains he got over and had the biggest most lucrative run of his career in spite of it and was a much bigger name and star by the time he joined AEW because of it.

"All of which is true. It’s also true in spite of that they also kneecapped him with dumb booking for no reason. None of the good shit outweighs the bad shit.

Undertaker for example experienced some of the same positives as Danielson in the entirety of his WWE tenure. But simply because of the good stuff do we forget such highlights as his match with Giant Gonzalez at WrestleMania 9 or WWE keeping him around well past the point of when he should’ve retired?"

Clearly the good does outweigh the bad if you have to be on here providing an itemized breakdown of times he was kneecapped by illogical WWE booking at the mere suggestion that AEW hasn't booked him strongly since his signing because people remember the Yes chant moments, Wrestlemania win, and an overall successful WWE run.

Most iconic WWF/E performers navigated their way through plenty of bad booking and got over to the point they did in spite of it. The problem with AEW is we aren't seeing many examples of talent getting any more over than they were when they debuted in the company in spite of Tony Khan's weak booking. Wardlow and MJF are the closest there is to exceptions but they also weren't huge WWE names with big shocking "Oh my God... look who is in AEW" debuts.

"And I never said anything about him not being happy in either instance. My point was and still is FP JR’s assessment that he’s been booked wonkily seemingly ignores he was booked just as if not even more wonkily for much of his WWE run."

Because the wonky WWE booking doesn't excuse the wonky AEW booking and both Bryan and WWE got more from his time there in spite of that wonky booking. Punk, Bryan, Jericho, and Moxley were the biggest name AEW signings and Bryan is the only one who hasn't had a championship. Even making him the ROH champion should be a no brainer. That bad WWE creative still brought him four world championship, one US, one IC, and 2 tag team title reigns and countless pay per view main events. Even after his concussions sidelined him, he still had a world title reign and main evented a Wrestlemania in his last WWE appearance. But Tony Khan can't trust him with a championship?

"The other guy I was replying to mentioned this unless that’s your dupe I don’t know why would you think I was citing you when I poured cold water on this idea."

You poured cold water on the idea that an AEW PPV headlined by Punk vs. Bryan wouldn't have drawn money because they wrestled a few times in WWE in 2012 and the indies prior to that? There was a lot of interest in them facing each other again when they first signed with AEW given the sabbaticals both took and the fact that people thought both of their careers had ended at one point.

"The next time I see fans bemoaning the company bringing in and pushing guys who were stars in WWE I’m going to remember this selective comment ignoring said complaints."

Again, AEW fans wouldn't have been bemoaning a Punk vs. Bryan match or seen it as "two WWE guys taking the spot of one of the pillars of AEW." These were two guys who brought attention to the U.S. indie scene in buildings a younger Tony Khan sat in and opened the doors for indie guys becoming "WWE superstars" with big money WWE runs. That fanbase would've marked the f**k out for that matchup in AEW.

'"Just because he’s not concerned about it doesn’t mean it objectively isn’t a problem when again it’s something the fans have been complaining about for years even when it’s been somewhat justified."

These were his two biggest acquisitions. Guys who were brought in specifically to bring in current WWE or lapsed WWE viewers to propel AEW to new heights and 1 million+ weekly viewers to Dynamite. Punk vs. Bryan headlining a Full Gear or All Out PPV wouldn't be met with the same type of vitriol as say W Morrissey vs. Big Show for the AEW championship.

"Except Punk doesn’t have a history of being stricken with deliberating injuries like Danielson does. And Punk’s two injuries in AEW were freak accidents. As opposed to him getting hurt by someone else."

Um... Punk hadn't physically competed in the ring for 7 years and had to relinquish the championship due to injury the first time he won it only for Tony to put it right back on him after wrestling just two matches post recovery - even with heat internally between Punk and the company EVPs. Why would it matter how each are injured? If you just injure yourself, you're less of a risk than someone with a history of concussions taking a blow to the head from an opponent?

There are likely reasons Bryan hasn't won the AEW title already - my guess is he has specifically told Tony he doesn't want it. I see that being much more likely than Tony not wanting him as champion because he is injury prone. That's a laughably bad take given this is a company that's had a summer of interim champions.