I actually like Jinder Mahal.
The problem is, they haven't built him. Like, at all. He has been a jobber for pretty much his entire run on the main card in WWE. He was a member of the Three Man Band, and probably the worst member of the Three Man Band. He's only won a handful of matches on WWE television, and now he is the WWE champion.
Why? Well, they booked it to appeal to India, and some of the fans are accepting it because it's a funny joke. Neither of these are particularly good reasons. Sure, it's a nice novelty to have a jobber beat a 13 time world champion, but that novelty is not enough to make for an interesting title run. I'm willing to bet that the fans he has right now will be sick of him inside two months, because he just isn't that good yet. Maybe someday he could be, but I'm not sure shoehorning him into the title picture as a joke is going to help with that. Long term stars are built organically, and this is far from organic.
Meanwhile, the booking of the Orton/Wyatt feud makes less sense than ever. Wyatt got an awesome moment at Elimination Chamber only to lose the belt to Randy Orton only so that Randy Orton could lose the belt to Jinder fucking Mahal a month later. The whole thing feels pointless.
I'm trying to keep an open mind and wait to see what they have planned. But it doesn't feel like they have a planned. It feels like they wanted to try to elevate an Indian superstar, and then someone in creative said at a meeting, 'hey, you know what would be funny? Let's have Jinder Mahal beat Randy Orton.'