Could Fans Sit Through It?

Unsure if this is a Classic Wrestling Topic or one that belongs here, but I'll just leave it here because it relates more to current times.

Does anyone believe that an angle like Sting vs. Hogan/nWo could work in current WWE? Meaning, could a ridiculously slow burn story work in today's era? The beauty of Sting v. Hogan (which was not the match itself) was that even though it was the same every week, people were really anxious to seee Sting finally get his 1 on 1 match with Hogan. Sting didn't ahve to wrestle a single match. All he had to do was do a run-in and the fans ate it up.

In this era, we see Sheamus and Cesaro fight Rollins and Ambrose in some variation each week. Smackdown's storylines are the closest we get to having wrestlers in feuds wait until the PPV to finally face each other. For example, instead of seeing AJ vs Corbin 3 times before the PPV, we see AJ v. Tye and Corbin v. Tye; we see New Day vs. American Alpha 2.0 instead of AA2 vs Usos 3 times and in singles matches. But nothing as long as the Sting Hogan build.

So, do you think if WWE wanted to, they could do a slow burn for approximately a year? Or was Sting/Hogan an anomaly that can't be duplicated? Only reason I ask is because I was talking with my friends who say that WWE hot shot stories too fast. While I agreed, my counter was fans today can't wait that long. While we can agree that Styles v. Nakamura or Cena vs. Undertaker are main event Wrestlemania matches that we can wait for, we probably couldn't sit through a year build (and I don't mean a year build like where Rock challenged Cena. I mean an actual storyline build). We'd all be complaining that this was too early to start the feud.