Looking at old Raw videos, it feels like there was a bigger gap

The 00's were the cumulative end to the 20th century, a summary of all the decades if you will. What you are experiencing now is nothingness. It's all been done before, and better.

>>2929141
based nothingness working the millennials

You gotta be fucking blind to not notice at least some changes in production between even fucking 2015 and 2017. They've changed a ton of things since the brand split alone.

>>2929126
1999-2001 or so was peak WWE, and they've been trying and failing to recreate it since

>>2929163

9/11 killed wrestling. Kids today will never remember pre 9/11 america

>>2929202
based 9/11 working the smarks

>>2929126
The reason is money, competition, and technology. In 1995 WWF had a lot less money, technology like what we have today was in its early infancy, and WCW wasn't major competition.

Then NWO came along in 1996 and Nitro started BTFOing RAW in the ratings because of its vastly superior content. WWF was forced to respond, and eventually did a month or two before WM13 when they switched to the 2 hour format and a much improved set with better technology, camera angles, etc., and just a better show overall (the 1-hour shows were God-awful for the most part).

WWE's financials in 2008 and 2017 were relatively equal in that there wasn't that massive of a change; both years they were doing great financially being the only game in town and also such a well oiled machine. Also technology hadn't changed that much either. Neither have clothing styles - whereas there was a huge difference from 1995 to 1999 (it's pretty easy to tell what year any television show from the 90s aired down to a roughly 2-year window based on the "look" of the broadcast due to ever-changing technology, as well as styles of clothes the actors/audience members wore - same goes for the early-mid 00s).

>>2929202

Unironically this.