Hey Scott,
Do you think NXT is going to eventually hinder wrestler debuts?
Depending on whether or not WWE goes to outside talent which it doesn't debut on NXT first (Hopefully that statement doesn't seem laughable in the coming months). Which means there will never be a real situation where a wrestler will be able pop up on WWE or show up in vignettes without everyone already knowing about that wrestler long before he shows up. Example: If Rusev had shown up on Raw wtih Lana on any random day prior to showing up on NXT, I would've said, "huh, that's something new." Now I feel like I've seen it. And the more exposure NXT gets, the less any real surprise is going to arise through debuts. Is this just the nature of the current WWE beast and/or do you think this will be a problem?
​Depends on the character, I guess. Adam Rose is still a pretty fresh character and didn't get overexposed on his three appearances in NXT, even if we already saw everything of Leo Kruger we ever wanted to in one lifetime. In fact I think it would have been smarter to leave him in the Kruger gimmick and just debut the Rose one on RAW since they were planning to bring him up so quickly anyway. That being said, no one knew who Emma was, so it's not like NXT is giving them THAT much exposure. A more interesting case will be someone like Mojo Rawley or the Ascension, who has already hit the wall of what they're going to be as workers and characters in NXT, and how that will translate to RAW with something of a fresh start. Personally I'm sick of the Ascension squashing geeks for months on end, but the thing is that the Full Sail crowd is a completely different animal than the travelling circus that is RAW. It's like Homer's experiences as a mascot in Springfield and then his callup to Capital City.
So yeah, given they don't like surprises in their new guys and want to know 100% for sure that everyone will shake hands backstage a million times the proper way, I'd say it's just the nature of the beast now.