Yup. This is why I think the NXT praise is quasi deserved.
I mean yes, they have been for the past 2 or so years bringing in talent from other promotions all over the world and have been giving us dream matches, but when it comes to their own homegrown talent.....it's pretty terrible a lot of the time.
Gimmicks like The Ascension, The Vaudevillains, Adam Rose, Bull Dempsey, Tyler Breeze, CJ Parker, Sylvester LeFort Rusev the Evil Russian, Elias Samson, No Way Jose, are all gimmicks that seem like they are straight out of the early 90s "New Generation Era" of WWF and are blatantly not going to go anywhere this day and age. Now, of course, once every now and then one of the gimmicks will squeak through and get over, like The Wyatts, and Rusev would have never been as well received as he was as an anti-american heel without Lana, but most of the time these gimmicks are dead on arrival.