Why would they? People keep paying for the WWE network, watching every week and attending live shows, no matter how awful the product gets. Vince probably sits in his office laughing and thinking, "It doesn't matter how shitty our product is, these fools still lap it up." As a former fan, I can say with 100% honestly that I have not paid for ANYTHING wrestling-related since the early 90s.
Correct. All of this. As long as WWE still pulls in around 70k people for WM, reels in about $600 million in yearly revenue, has millions of eyeballs watching WM and subbing to the Network, live shows still sell well enough, Vince and co doesn't have to try to pull a great wrestling product anymore. All they care about is pulling enough people, from any kind of demographics, in to make their money and please the shareholders.
I mean yeah, WM is going to suck this year, but does WWE care? No, because 10s of thousands of people are going to come there anyway to say that they went to a Wrestlemania. WWE is going to scoop a live gate of around $10-15 million on whatever card great or crappy, plus more in other aspects like merch, etc. We've been hearing that it's going to be Brock vs Goldberg for the title in the main event for months now and apparently the live audience just don't care that it's going to suck, since WM is still going to sell-out.
I guess in a sense, WWE needs to have a major sense of vulnerability like the Monday Night Wars to really shake things up and give a hoot about delivering a quality wrestling product, but since no other company can challenge WWE, in terms of financial resources, something else probably needs to happen to get WWE to deliver a strong product again.
Either way, I don't care if WWE has a good product or not. I haven't watched anything from them since the main event of WM 30, with the exception of some of the NXT: Takeover shows. Time is too short for me to resort to watch hours of a subpar product and I rather spend that time doing other things I enjoy like playing WoW or watching NJPW.