When did in ring quality matches stop mattering to goofies?

I remember a few years ago, wrestling fans were obsessed with workrate and high quality matches. It was common opinion to say the WCW cruiserweights and midcarders were the real reason most fans watched WCW and not for the nWo and other older wrestlers. It was common for guys like Malenko, Benoit, Guerrero, Jericho etc to be praised as the best wrestlers who should be World Champion. It was common opinion that TNA was better than WWE because of the X Division. It was common that Ring of Honor was the place for all the “real” wrestlers for guys like Styles, Punk, Bryan,Joe, Nigel, Omega, Bucks. It was common that NJPW was the legit company where underutilized wrestlers should go to have 5 star matches. Advertising the indies online like Chikara and PWG was very popular to support the smaller companies. Even AEW became popular because it was anti WWE and focused on in ring work.

However since 2022, goofies did a 180 degree turn and turned on the in ring and workrate mindset and jumped on the storytelling/cinema/“moves don’t matter” mindset. For example someone like Jey Uso would have been hated online 10 years ago like Roman Reigns was because they didn’t have great matches or workrate but now they’re popular because of their story, being a draw, having a popular chant, as well as having few moves things goofies rejected with a passion.

What caused the switch in popularity from workate to storytelling? Fans growing up, the old SCJerk left wrestling, or a new generation of fans?