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OK, several things.
1stly, me personally, i like the Smackdown set. I love the fist and the pyros that come out of it, and I like how its looks totally different to Raw. If anything, I prefer to Smackdown set more than the Raw set, because the Raw set looks too generic.
In regards to going live, this is purely a logisitcal problem. Generally Raw and Smackdown are recorded near each other, one night after the other because I THINK the ring crews for Raw and Smackdown are the same. If they recorded it on thursday, then the ring crew would set up on monday, pull down the set Tuesday, go home wednesday, then go BACK again on Thursday.
Also, the way the Raw roster works is:
Raw: 2 house shows between Friday and Sunday, and the raw taping on monday
Smackdown: 2 house shows between Saturday and Monday, and SD! taping Tuesday.
Therefore, the workers on both brands work similar days. If they recorded smackdown on Thursday, then raw would work the normal days, and Smackdown would work Monday to THursday.
I think these are the major problems when they record live.
With regards to lack of talent on Smackdown, Smackdown's main-eventers and upper-midcarders are potentially just as big as the Raw guys. The problem stems from the midcarders, guys like Nunzio, Kenzo Suzuki, bashams and some of the cruiserweights, who are just not as over as the raw guys.
In saying that however, I'd still say that Kenzo Suzuki is in a far better position in Smackdown than Simon Dean is on Raw - both the number 1 challengers for the # 2 belts on their shows
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