What did you think of Austin getting his ass whooped all match and then a thesz press followed by stompin the mud hole, and then the stone cold stunner, but most of the time he could skip the first two steps and just pull out a random stunner, orton style. I agree with you for the most part but they still had guys like cena in the AE. Stone Cold was just way cooler and had matches with guys like Brett Hart that were simply amazing.
That's my point though. Hart and Austin had a fantastic match because everything that happened meant something in the grand scheme of the match. They were able to do a double turn without saying a word. Almost every SCSA match after that was ended by a random stunner. To go back to the or initial reason this was brought up, to say Punk is better than Hart in the ring baffles me. He's good, but he doesn't bring the best out of every opponent he faces, except for Cena.
As for Adam, watch the KOTR the year Bret won it. 3 different matches with three totally different opponents, all fantastic matches . If you still feel the same way after watching that PPV, I'll leave the issue alone.