I think part of why I like early WCW and WWF so much is that you have so few guys. Like you've got jobbers for days, you've got a couple up and comers, and you've got your stars. But because the roster is so weak at that time from people coming and going. The guys you got, they feel like mega stars. Like, they're the guys that WCW and WWF said, 'No, these are our guys. We're building around them.' It would make sense because it's why I hate Attitude Era so much. It's just too much. It's Russo booking where there's so many faces, so many angles, so many matches that were supposed to 'mean something' that made it so everything lost that something.
Of course, it only really works in a PPV format because how many jobber squashes can I watch a week. But like the whole Rude/Vader thing in WCW when they were getting ready to fight each other. It's fucking incredible. It's like the heel version of mega powers exploding. It never happens, but the idea of it is so enticing. It's what made Owen vs Bret feel so special. All that build around Owen, all that build around Bret. Then the next month, you'd see another familiar face. The Smackdown Six kind of felt like the inbetween of that style of booking and Attitude Era booking due to all the midcard stuff going on.
Of course, the poor implementation of this booking method would be modern day WWE and Hulkamania era where you built EVERYTHING around one guy. Unfortunately, that seems to be the most successful.