RAW IS BARON CORBIN
Here's what... well, shit. I can't even say I don't "get it" because this is WWE and they program everything as if their audience are a bunch of barely sentient wet farts in MAGA caps. But it remains disappointing.
RAW opens with a heel authority figure faction bending the rules to beat down a face, Elias, who stupidly walks to the ring by himself without backup to take on one of the cowardly heels, only to (SHOCK) find himself a victim of the damn numbers game once the GM changes the rules on the fly. The OTHER face (Balor) feuding with these goobers makes it a point to cut a promo about specifically how this sort of thing is what he can't stand, yet later on THAT SAME FUCKING SHOW he goes out for a match against one of these heels and OMG SHOCK the same exact shit happens and he doesn't have back up either.
So, like:
-all your heels are shitty cowards
-all your faces are stupid and can't be arsed to team up or look for back up
so why the fuck do I care about them? Answer: I don't.
Contrast that with SD where at least there are interesting things happening. The most over person in the whole company is a shit talking, ass kicking Irish woman that calls herself the man; her main rival just went crazy and pillmanized the other brand's champion; and the men's champ is a ball kicking evil ring genius. Even AJ realizes he gets kicked in the balls a lot even if he doesn't wear a cup. Also, Samoa Joe exists and is always great.
Meanwhile on RAW you have all that shit, an absentee champ that would rather be in the UFC but shows up for ludicrous paydays, and a face "tag team" that gets to cheat and put over for it (Lucha House Party)
RAW is a piece of shit and should be fired into the sun, and I haven't even talked about Nia Jax