That's a whole boatload of conjecture with very little to back it up. I think you're giving WWE management way too much credit. This is the group that tried their best to bury Daniel Bryan against Sheamus, only to have the fans revolt and almost derail the push of Triple H's training buddy. That was not intended, not by a long shot.
As for the "passing of the torch" to Daniel Bryan, I don't see that happening, either. He's only a few years younger than Cena, after all. He's probably got less years left as a pro wrestler than Cena because of his style. He'll be out of the WWE before Cena stops being goofy. We're years away from Cena turning heel, if ever.
Daniel Bryan may end up with a real title reign, that's true, but I doubt it will be very long, and that's only if they can't find someone "larger than life". It's quite possible that Roman Reigns will end up passing Bryan in the pecking order within the next year or two.
It also won't be against Cena. They're desperate to hold on to his last shreds of popularity, that's why they removed him from the feud with Punk as quickly as possible. Cena is the least popular "face" of the WWE in my memory and they don't want it to get any worse.
Quite honestly, there is no reason to give the WWE the benefit of the doubt. Their recent track record has more cases of mismanagement than success stories. The attempt to make The Miz a main event guy, the failure to push Ziggler when he was hot, pushing ADR over and over, squandering Ryback's momentum--there are a lot of mistakes there. Perhaps you still have faith after all of that but I'm afraid I do not.
