Heres what I think happened as far as Triple H is concerned:
The draft rolls around, and seeing as how it blew last year, and basically served no purpose what so ever other than to completely stack raw and leave the other brands with their heads barely above water; the wwe is thinking, hmm, who can we move around that NOONE will expect us to move? I know Triple H! Noone will be expecting that!
And they were right. Noone saw it coming. However, now they have Triple H on SD, as Champ, with absolutley nothing to do with him, noone else capable of doing even the slightest entertaining thing with him. So what happens? Absolutely nothing.
They truly backed themselves into a corner on this one. Although, if you think about it, after Triple H returned at Summerslam, other than the Orton and then Cena angles, he hasnt really done alot of anything. For several weeks all he did was come out to make fun of Vince during the illegitimate son angle.
Now he is on SD, he cant be in any of the ME angles like we are used to seeing him in (because even something we have seen before is better than seeing absolutely nothing at all from the WHC) but SD simply doesnt have the talent available. With him being sent to SmackDown, he doesnt even have HBK there, so they can fall back on the old DX angle, which is getting old as well.
I can tell you that I have only watched SD maybe half a dozen times since the draft, but it doesnt appear I am missing anything. They basically moved him there, he wasnt needed there, there was nothing for him to DO there. They would have been better off sending over another two solid mid-card guys, with ME potential, instaed of trying to go for shock value.