While I would welcome the Hardcore Title returning 24/7, that wouldn't be new or innovative or fresh, it'd be just rehashing the past, however funny or entertaining it was. Plus, recall that the 24/7 thing doesn't really work for house shows.
I agree to an extent that's it's too serious, though there are clearly moments meant to be funny (Mae Young frenching Haas, Charlie Haas in general, Santino, 'Let's hear it for Vince McMahon') but whether they come off funny is another matter. Certainly the dizzy heights of Rock n Sock Connection, Angle/Stephanie/HHH love triangle, Olympic Athletes for Abstinence, 'I chopee chopee your peepee', Mark 'Sexual Chocolate' Henry, Vince McMahon loves cock, 'I'll take it from here nurse', mini-Booker T, Kurt Angle rapping, Melina giving Batista his best ever 'warm-up' and Little Bastard throwing JBL a can of Guinness seem to be long gone.
Ah, leave the memories alone. So to speak.