I feel like I'm an odd case...
I consider myself somewhat of an "Attitude Era Purist". Probably similar to weird old school hockey fans that dislike the direction of the sport because there aren't any more bench clearing brawls? I actually spent my childhood thinking wrestling was fake and stupid until I hit middle school. All sorts of kids were running around wearing Steve Austin shirts and I over heard some kid talking about a guy called Undertaker hanging somebody with a noose from a cage. I was intrigued, but not enough to watch. However, on one fateful morning in January 1999 I was flipping through channels while putting on my hockey equipment. I landed on some WWF recap show literally right as the glass shattered for Austin during a clip of Mankind winning the championship for the first time. I was completely mesmerized and had to watch Raw the next day, and tuned in regularly from then on.
I started to tune out when they "unified" the hardcore title, did all the silly brand split drafts and re-drafts and started to (at least from my view) become WCW. And I absolutely HATED Lesnar and Cena's seemingly immediate pushes to the top. I think the last thing I really tuned in for was the first ECW One Night Stand. Social media kept me aware of some of the happenings and a lot of the PG-era stuff seemed cringey to me. I distinctly remember seeing a video clip of some vignette between HHH and Michaels, where Michaels got a job as a chef or something and then gave sweet chin music to some complaining child. It was worse than the whole Triple H in the casket Katie Vick thing.
Fast forward to more recently... My GF was following some WWE stuff on SnapChat because she watched those Divas shows on E! but never the actual wrestling. One day I heard the Hardy Boyz music come from her phone, and it was some snap about their return at WM33 the night before. That Attitude Era nostalgia made me tune in to Raw when she and I were watching TV that night. I probably spent most of it lamenting how much better I think the Attitude Era is, while she actually enjoyed watching. We (I'm usually just already on the couch) now usually watch at least the first hour of Raw and Smackdown, and I got a Network subscription so she can watch PPV's and I can relive the Attitude Era.
Admittedly, I'm not really a big fan of today's WWE product, although I am trying. But just from my observation:
-The matches are mostly super slow and boring and I absolutely hate how they go to commercials in the middle of them. How about we go back to 5-10 minute matches between commercials and showcase more talent? It's crazy to me when a Raw/Smackdown opens with a match and then it's still going a half hour into the show....
-What happened to some of the more creative big finishing moves? The "Superman Punch" and that stupid head stomp thing Seth Rollins does are LAME.
-I don't know why, but I absolutely despise most of their "top" talent (Reigns, Rollins, Becky, etc.), but in some ironic twist I'm 100% cool with Lesnar now
-I get why they do it this way, but hitting people with chairs/guitars/etc. just seems silly now that it's just across the back
-The brand split thing is just pointless. It seems as though they regularly showcase less talent than they did prior to buying WCW and having Raw and Smackdown be the two shows. Why not just have one main roster and go back to just calling it "WWE"?
-I saw an Undertaker match for the first time since Bush was President during the most recent Saudi show and I felt HORRIBLE
-Unless it involves Shane McMahon, feuds seem to be really lacking in any sort of build up, or just really short in general
-This new Bray Wyatt thing is great though