AEW not changing the game?

While they might in fact be the 2nd place in Sports Entertainment, no fear.. they'll easily be the #1 Professional Wrestling Company... After all, that spots been void since 2001 when WCW went bankrupt due to corporate merger.

Care to provide any examples of these instances when AEW have "fallen flat on their face?"

Vince isn't in the wrestling business, just ask him.

Whether Vince McMahon wants to admit it or not his company is pro wrestling. He fancies it as something that is comparable to movies and tv shows, but it really is just wrestling. He just doesn’t want to promote it as such because of the negative connotation. I’m not defending him in fact I can’t support his company because of that. I always knew TNA was never going to be competition to them because other than a small period in the mid 2000s, they were always wwe lite. They tried to out-sports entertainment wwe and failed miserably. I think AEW can compete with wwe one day and are kind of there now. Plus with how long wrestling matches have been on Dynamite, they’re the real total nonstop action.

This has gone WAY off the rails

no

I gotta imagine all the covid stuff changed alot of storylines so I cant hate them for what they have done with what they have.

Sure, but there are too many to touch on, I think. 

To begin, not every angle is touched upon every week, which is possible. ECW did a fine job of it for many years, producing video packages of a few minutes, highlighting angles with interviews from the talent. We should be hearing from everyone, every week, for the most part. What's Vicki doing for Nyla? How does SCU feel about Sky's loss? Those types of promos. I was a kid during that time, but it really helped me stay informed of everything, as sadly, ECW was my life into early adolescence, despite having to trade tapes across the country, as we didn't get ECW HCTV. 

There are also a lot of thrown-together and dropped storylines, or some that resume out-of nowhere. The best examples I can think of over the long-term are Penta/Daniels, and Brandi/everybody and everything. In the more recent times, Matt Hardy/Private Party, Moxley/Cage, Best Friends' title shot being postponed for no reason, FTR not hosting last week, Cody and Kenny working face and heel during different matches, and within different matches. There is much more, too, but I'm drawing a blank at the moment. 

As important as anything, to me, though, as a fan, is being able to see the NEW talent I learned about from AEW. The roster is too thin to have so much talent, especially replacing them with known-names.

Overall, I still enjoy AEW, and look forward to Dynamite every week. I just feel they were really strong from Late-January through Revolution, and then were building toward some big things before the pandemic. That said, without an audience, it's probably hard to gauge what is working at the moment. 

I actually like their long-term storytelling, and the payoff at Revolution seemed to silence a lot of people who had been complaining. I'm old enough that all we had was long-term storytelling, and we rarely saw top-tier talent on TV.

I'll counter by saying that space between when talent is seen is fine, so long as they leave you with a memorable exit. Cody not being on the Dynamite before Revolution, after that cage match, is a good example. 

The two best examples I can think of are the first Undertaker/Kane match, and the HHH/Batista match at WM. Both were slow burns, with the former taking six months before they even touched each other. I think they're doing a great job of this with Omega and Page, as they did with MJF and Cody.