Does WWE Limit Their Wrestling Moves To A Certain Extent?

Duh. It's for safety, ability and booking reasons.

I know a lot of people kill The Wasteland as a finisher, but when you look at the roster up and down, it is one of the most dangerous moves. Every time Wade hits it, I can't help but think how incredible it is that he hasn't seriously hit someone off it yet. Well, there was that one incident with Cena being hurt in a match with Wade, but it was never really confirmed that The Wasteland had fault in it. p) Imagine having a whole roster that did moves like that.. With that WWE schedule? Bitch plz.

Not everyone has the actual agility to pull off a 45807 degree flip or strength to control if someone gets dropped on their hit or not. We've seen how terrible some of the divas have looked when they try to go all indy (looking at you Eve and Melina). Heck, Botchamania videos are filled with indy morons who do shit that looks like shit just for the sake of doing said shit. When the WWE proudly talks about the athleticism and how well trained their folks are, doing stuff that visually looks awful is counterproductive in every sense. It still blows my mind that some people use that '[name] only does [#] of moves' as a criticism.

But I think the biggest reason the WWE scales back on moves is booking. There are six people on Raw and SD that have top rope finishers. Kofi and his shitty crossbodys; Evan and his SSP; Justin Gabriel and his 'sternum crushing' 450 splash; Eve and her moonsault; and whatever you call that shit the Sin Caras do. How big is the roster again? 80 people? If everyone of those 80 people (who knows if that is the real number) did a top rope finisher, the crow would be dead by the main event. And if group of fans knows about being gassed by the matches that have actual meaning, it would be the people who want flips and shit.

Also, you got that little hurdle of 'different characters' to get over. There might be an overwhelming feeling of some guys being interchangeable, but they all have their own style. Mark Henry is dubbed The World's Strongest Man. He is supposed to only do power moves. What good would it do anyone much smaller/faster if he tried to pull hurricaranas or flips out of his ass? What would be the appeal of a Evan Bourne or Sin Cara if he did that?