Are we sure this isn't Aljo's burner account?
In all seriousness though I went back and re-watched the fight to make sure I wasn't delusional and holy shit bro, you are really on one with some of these posts.
Before I actually respond to your points I'll make my general consensus of the fight upon re-watch; incredibly dominant, incredibly boring, with a couple flashes of brilliance sprinkled throughout.
Aljo looked good and Kattar looked old/slow/bad, once Aljo was able to get his clinch/grappling game going he gassed Kattar in less then a round and just used control positions to suck the life out of him. He looked ok in the stand-up in spots, still just spams single techniques from range then moves away and feints level changes to get opponents to stop pressuring or not throw if they are.
He took absolutely zero risks throughout, content to play it safe at all times and just lay in side control for a minute in rounds 2/3 just to kill clock, never posturing up to throw strikes outside of the power bomb sequence (by far the coolest sequence and one that led to some GnP, albeit some shitty hammerfists).
Basically he cooked Kattar early and got him stuck in quicksand, it was very technical pressure grappling against an over-matched opponent that was fighting purely defensively (so to be fair to him Kattar not trying stupid escapes or panic grappling from bottom didn't open up clear transitions or subs, but he never really pushed the issue). The only legit sub attempt was the guillotine at the end of the fight (last 20 seconds) and Kattar defended and escaped before he even really tried for it.
Now, to your comments:
He had 0 near finishes, what the fuck are you watching? He had a cool power bomb type slam that surprised Kattar and got him to shell up for 5 seconds of hammerfists that landed on his gloves. Then at the end of the fight he goes for a guillotine for all of 2 seconds which Kattar escapes by going to his back immediately.
Kattar is tough and fought defensively from bottom by not taking stupid chances, but if we don't acknowledge how Aljo just bleeds a minute from the clock in every round literally just laying on his opponent from side control we are being dishonest - he's a clock-staller from control positions, always has been and always will be. It is what it is, I don't blame him for using a style that is incredibly effective at "winning," I just don't find it entertaining.
Rankings don't mean shit and he isn't top 5 anyways lol - he's somehow ranked #8, even though he's 1-4 in his last 5 and the only win was by out-wrestling a striker in Giga when Kattar is a striker that never wrestles. The last time he looked good was before he fought Max in 2020, after Max took part of his soul he's been a fading shadow of himself and now he's a 36 year old FW coming off almost 2 year layoff from destroying his knee.
To his credit, Aljo looked good at the new weight-class and was fast, strong, effective in implementing his style. But if we don't acknowledge that Kattar is old, faded, coming off a long-term injury lay off we are again being dishonest. Aljo looked good, Kattar looked bad - and yet it was still a boring fight.
I think we just want to see Aljo not actively stall. At the end of the day I don't want to see him sit in the pocket and try to counter or get in prolonged combinations/exchanges because he's not good at that and asking him to commit fight suicide isn't smart or cool. But in every single round he got in a completely dominant control position and you could almost see the wheels turning in his brain going "I'm winning - I don't need to do anything except hold this guy here and keep tiring him out" when he could've looked to posture up and throw strikes, create a dynamic grappling transition, just do something to show he is a "fighter" that wants to hurt his opponent and is willing to take chances to do so.
You actively admit he dominated Kattar who couldn't land/do much, yet you can't admit that Aljo does so little with the dominance to make things entertaining. He had Kattar COOKED by the early second round and it wasn't until the last 30 seconds of the fight he actually created an opportunity to submission hunt and immediately opened up and attacked a guillotine. The thing is he could to that way more often, but he's a completely risk-averse fighter - why would he take chances going aggressively for positions or submissions or GnP when he can just control you and drain your energy levels? Doing that means using energy and risking reversals, and Aljo's style is built to remove as little risk as possible so he'll only do those things in the type of dominant spots that rarely happen when you fight elite competition.
Clearly you love seeing grappling used effectively in fights and there is nothing wrong with that, but the least you can do is acknowledge his style is completely risk-averse and based on control, instead of trying to gaslight people into thinking he almost finished Kattar twice....
