Such a shame to see all this technical innovation (for better or worse) squandered on a hideous looking piece of shit.

This. I can't think of many themes I'd be less interested in.

Even if I tried to overlook that... the gameplay footage I've seen indicates that a large portion of time is spent just randomly poking the ball around in the wrestling ring up the top which looks awfully boring. I find on some games that the pop bumpers ruin the flow if they trap the ball for too long. The wrestling ring seems to take it a step further by making this frustration of mine the actual objective.