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Thinking more about the Danielson/MJF angle...it's repetitive yes but I think part of the reason it feels this way goes well beyond the basic framework of "Danielson runs an MJF gauntlet". There's actually some differences in this angle than the previous gauntlets and they're easy to miss because AEW seem to be poor at explaining things.
On paper the MJF/Danielson build is actually really smart. The story is that the responsibilities of being a champion are killing MJF, heavily because he can't actually get away with his usual bullshit. He didn't get to choose Danielson's opponents, he didn't get to pick stipulations, and even trying to force Danielson into a Labors of Jericho series of matches has ended up screwing him over in the long run because now he has to wrestle a match type that favors the challenger.
He wanted the brass ring and now he's gotten it and it means that he has to go places he doesn't want to go, he has to wrestle people he'd rather not wrestle, and so on and so forth. The only alternative is to give up the belt, a thing he'd never do. Danielson, conversely, loves and wants nothing more but to wrestle matches, so the moment he's negotiated it so the reward is worth the risk his only issue is getting to the finish line. In its way it's kind of a funny inversion of MJF's feuds.
But none of that is really made clear. Nothing is made as clear as it needs to be, which means that every week on here people have come in not knowing who canonically is booking Danielson's opponents (it's Tony Khan, not MJF), how long he needs to win matches for (it was for five weeks, which feels arbitrary because the top five rankings functionally do not exist anymore), or even that MJF is coming actually unglued (because MJF has played nearly every single version of his character except for the "I'm actually deep because I was bullied when I was younger" version). And I can't blame anyone for that because there have been weeks where I've been unsure of that myself, and have only noticed it because I caught words Excalibur was saying at his full auctioneer pace when running down cards.
Some of AEW's problems are heavily about circumstances that are out of their control, or a general reluctance to give indicators as to why wrestlers have been cycled out (Wardlow getting injured, for example), but some of it is really just a seeming refusal to not simplify things and hammer home the same beats over and over so even a fourth-grader could understand it, which is what you need to do for a large TV audience.
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