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I, for one, don't want the Authority to last but I don't necessarily see a better alternative.
However, I'm aware HHH and Stephanie would prefer to milk this thing and use every excuse in the book to do so.
They can go back and claim the evil owner(s) gimmick fed into some of the most successful times WWE has ever had.
If they moved away from the Authority, they'd likely replace them with a face GM that would grow stale insanely quick quality wise.
The Authority's initial 'banishment' would pay off, but it would be impossible to replace them effectively. (WWE actually shouldn't replace them at all. The GM shtick has run its course).
Edit: The only person who could pull the GM role right off the bat, after the Authority's demise, would be Hulk Hogan. By his own admission, Vince prefers being backstage.
I'm tired of authority figures in general. I'm all for venturing back into the days where the authority figure calling the shots didn't have to involve themselves in the storylines so frequently and only showed up on-screen to rule on important matters and otherwise left everything else to the talent. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your viewpoint), because everyone knows who's running the company nowadays, it doesn't have the same authentic feel to have, say, William Regal or Brad Maddox running the show because you know there's a higher authority figure in charge above them who can, and at times likely will, come in and change their decisions on a whim. We saw Vince do that a couple of times with Vickie Guerrero (like changing the Survivor Series 2012 main event after it had already been booked.)
Still, every authority figure (even Vince) has their expiration date, and I feel that someone taking down Triple H in a match and ostracizing him and Stephanie from power as a result could be a huge, star-making rub akin to when Batista brought down HHH back in 2005. I find more comparisons between The Authority's reign of terror from 2013 to now with HHH's reign of terror from 2002 to 2005 (as leader of Evolution) than with Vince's run as the evil owner back in the day, but that's a topic that I'm preparing to make a separate thread about.