I thoroughly enjoyed the two-night spectacle that was WWE’s WrestleMania 41 in Las Vegas last weekend.

The card was well balanced, and despite some complaints about the lack of a proper build to this year’s showcase of the immortals, I can honestly say that there wasn’t a single match I can point to and say “Oh yeah, that was bad.”

Even the conclusion of Sunday’s main event, which saw John Cena surpass Ric Flair by defeating Cody Rhodes to win the undisputed WWE Championship for his 17th world title, was just fine. Rhodes has been the company’s top dog since last April’s show in Philadelphia and he has earned an opportunity to put his feet up for a little while before certainly coming back later this year to chase the title again.

I had but two complaints coming out of last weekend.

First, why did rapper Travis Scott need to be involved in the end of the Rhodes-Cena match?

It took him nearly two whole minutes to saunter down to the ring from the top of the ramp, all the while Cena has this half-smile on his face just staring at him, all the while Scott just acts awkward.

How did WWE go from having a celebrity like Bad Bunny, who main evented at Backlash 2023 in Puerto Rico and actually does well between the ropes, to this? It just felt strange. And even now, looking back on the past three months, we haven’t really gotten an explanation as to why he is even involved outside of his song being the theme song to WrestleMania 41 and him being a big-time fan.

Admittedly, Scott was a part of the beginning of this tale when he, Cena and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson attacked Rhodes back at Elimination Chamber in February, so at least on SOME level, it makes sense, but this then leads me to my other major gripe — where was Rocky at?

Johnson said this week on ESPN’s “The Pat McAfee Show” that he never wanted to continue his involvement in the story, one of the biggest angles in the recent history of professional wrestling.

“When we were moving forward with John and this idea of him getting crowned at WrestleMania and becoming 17, and being a heel champion, I knew then the best thing for ‘The Final Boss,'” Johnson said. “We’ve established this idea of Cody’s soul. We can always come back to it. I did feel, I made the call, I don’t want to be involved in that. Let ‘The Final Boss’ step back into the shadows. Let all the spotlight go to John, let it go to Cody. Let’s not make it about Cody’s soul or John’s soul. Let’s let them do what they do.”

OK … so why do you keep inserting yourself into these scenarios, Dwayne?

The fans prevented Johnson from having the match with his cousin and other former WWE Champion Roman Reigns, with the massive backlash to WWE trying to take the legs out from under Rhodes leading into WrestleMania 40 last year, leading to questions of tension between the TKO board member and the hottest star in the company, before WWE finally realized what they had to cook with and called the audible to “finish the story.”

Then, Johnson comes out the night after Rhodes beats Reigns to win the title and disappears again for months after sort of challenging him to a future match without actually saying it.

Then the two apparently made up (off screen, of course), and now The Rock, who inserted himself into the angle with John Cena along with Travis Scott two months ago, doesn’t think he should be involved?

Is no one in the writer’s room at WWE brave enough to tell this guy that you can’t just set things up without paying them off? Long-term booking is great, but you have to pay things off eventually or else you get stuck with cliffhanger endings and the label of being bad storytellers.

Mirror copy editor Dan Isenberg can be reached at disenberg@altoonamirror.com or on X @TheseDanTweets.