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Mostly fair points, and many of them also applicable to RAW.
There is a real lack of main eventers, and the ones they have tried to make aren't neccesarily the right ones. The amount of effort which has been wasted on Jinder Mahal and Baron Corbin for example, despite them both being pretty terrible.
Meanwhile there has been a degree of missed potential as well. Breezango was actually doing ok with the whole Fashion Files thing but it never went anywhere. Lots of effort put into the Bludgeon Brothers, but that is really just a tag team thrown together because they can't think of anything to do with either of them (Luke Harper's split from Bray Wyatt last year was an utterly wasted opportunity and should have been delayed rather than becoming part of someone else's feud which was so forgettable I can't even remember who it was).
At the end of the day, the main problem remains that the WWE still sees it a the 'B' show. The RAW roster is the priority and gets the majority of the main stars and the focus. Despite Nakamura winning the rumble, there is no possibility that it will actually be the main event and the dual branded PPVs is only going to make this worse. Does anyone remember how infrequently the Smackdown World Title used to open the shows on PPVs with the original brand split?
Although despite all of this, I'd still rather watch Smackdown than Raw.
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