Here's what baffles me.
OK, you've decided you're staying the course and need to make Reigns the guy as planned. Let's give him a quality, violent, hard-hitting, competitive main event to make it clear he's the guy.
You can't have the guy he beats be a tiny lovable underdog. The way that Daniel Bryan works was great for what they were trying to do. But the thing that Daniel Bryan is makes it kind of weird and stupid.
And that's setting aside that Bryan is the guy people want in Reigns spot, no less.