To be clear, what's nonsense is defending actions that can do serious harm to people who don't know what they're doing. Chairs to the crown of the head, suffocating someone with a plastic bag over their head, injecting someone with drugs and such don't have a place in a mainstream wrestling show.
The story and violence isn't what I'm addressing. It's specific actions that can make kids think these things are OK to do to each other or that it's safe. People shouldn't be defending that regardless whether it's AEW or WWE. And yes, there have been things in the WWE that made me cringe . During the Edge vs Finn "I quit" match, Rhea attacking Beth the way she did made me cringe hard and I didn't like that at all and said as much when it happened.