Well the young guys who aren't lazy not linger in the mid card is my point. Orton shot up, Dave shot up, Cena shot up, Dolph is steadily climbing, Bryan worked his way up, Punk worked his way up, Ryback is doing it now, Sheamus did it. Hell Miz went from reality show reject who was bullied in the locker room by his and other admission to Diva Search host to ECW to Raw to WWE champ and WM headliner because he was hungry, a kind of hungry and will to I prove all around that Ryder, Kidd, McIntyre and a bunch of others have never shown half of
Really the only argument is MvP, and even then you would have to ignore that he couldn't be the world champ, as he couldn't even travel to Japan, Canada, etc because of his criminal jacket and not having the clearances. What good is a world champ like him at the time.
Carlito is the one who bitched publicly about not beign a heel twice while being pushed. Partnered with Trish, go on radio complain about how dare he not be heel. In story with Torrie and Flair as over face, complain on radio about not being a heel. Be partnered with your bro and admit you asked to go single heel act again ... That's on him, you can call it complacent, stubborn, whatever but he didnt want to be a success without it being his way over working to be a big time face. Shelton never truly developed his mic skills or charisma/mannerisms and he went over trips multiple times, which is compalcency. There's the fact Morrison never fixed his mic skills, still couldn't work a good non spotty match, and let Melina dictate his career ... Complacency. Bourne gets the ball handed to him with Air Boom, fails a test, doesn't get stripped like every other champ, only to comeback and fail another drug test.
