Did the Time Warner handcuffs cause Hogan to deliberately sabotage the Starcade 97 main event by telling Nick Patrick not to do the planned fast count and basically killing Sting dead and making Bret Hart look like an idiot?
Did the Time Warner handcuffs cause those three to come up with the idiotic beating of Goldberg at the following year's Starcade (after which both Bobby Heenan and Mike Tenay after the show ended both agreed that moment had effectively killed the company) which then led to one of the biggest disasters in wrestling history with the Fingerpoke of Doom that was the single moment you can point to as to where the company fell off a cliff never to recover?
I don't think you comprehend the scope.
Bischoff laid out several gameplans and attitude era scenarios that Time warner waited until the zero hour to Nix DURING THE SHOWS. Mild even by attitude era standards, but The time warner execs would wait to get back to them until during showtime to nix the ideas, or else. At which point they had like 20 minutes to come up with a new quick gameplan. And it happened every TV and PPV on a nightly basis. the politics of that corporate structure were a mess.
WCW had no Gorilla position like WWE where orders were sent over the mic. No homebase. nothing. They were certainly inept in that regard. WWE gorilla let them change things on the fly.
WCW wrestlers would find out their gameplan was nixed as they were walking through the curtain and have to improvise. it was chaotic. SHIT GUYS WE HAVE TO SCRAP THE ANGLE. "what do we do" um um, try this"
That was WCW under time warner.
Scott Steiner routinely ignored them and went full adlib because if he got suspended, they still paid him.
But yes, Hulk hogan is a self serving crappy employee. But he was still in the nexux of why WCW went from rassling show nobody took seriously to beating WWF in the ratings for 2 years. You can slag some of the crap he did, Any of us can. but nobody can deny he was the money draw that made them hit that peak in the first place. Thw NWO story arc beginnings and hogan turning heel were considered the biggest WTF OMG awesome moments in history of wrestling at that time. And he was instrumental in it. So were Hall and Nash.