If they knew this wouldn't go over well in North America and didn't care, wouldn't that be a case to say they did willfully ignore the complaints about Jinder? I think everyone knew this was the route they were going with once it got out that Jinder was getting a push for India. lol
I just hope that whatever damage they do to their brand by doing this for the sole purpose of expanding their brand in a part-time place for them like India isn't going to stay with them too long. You look at the lineage of past WWE champions and none of them, the worst ones you could think of, were as bad in terms of overness as Jinder Mahal currently is. And hell, that title didn't have all that many really poor champions. The World title did sure but the WWE Title actually held up pretty well over the years. They've effectively ended that now. That's going to stick with them whether they see that or not.