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Fair answers, if I was looking to pick a fight I would point out that Rey Mysterio did an angle a couple of years ago where his eyeball was pulled out. It was insane and they didn't follow through with it, and it's water under the bridge now that he's doing a big soap opera angle, but it's worth talking about in an argument about kayfabe. It's fine if you like that style of wrestler, I think AEW also has wrestlers that fall into that category but I really don't think it's worth a row either, if you don't like them, you don't like them.
What I would say is that I don't think 800k is a notably small number. What's the ceiling, Smackdown at 2 million - with a much larger potential audience I believe? Smackdown is available to watch in far more many homes because it's on free TV, is that right? I don't know the proportions there or much about how US TV works beyond cable and 'over the air'? That's a show with the sorts of wrestlers you like, with a larger potential audience than Dynamite, and all the brand power and legacy of WWE, and the audience is 2 million
In light of that I still think it's remarkable that AEW is within reach of what WWE does on TV - I would expect them to be lower, and so did TNT. You can spend the next 4 years continuing to gripe about it but they're still ahead of business expectations so, there's just not much very interesting about any of this!
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