The incident can be seen as the moment WWF won it's war with WCW. Bret was let go because WWF had no money, 1 year later WWF had won the Monday night wars
vince saved his company and made bret a legend, bret wasn't screwed - he was imortalised, and made alot of money from it all
it was a dishonest thing to do - but didn't hurt vince, the wwf or bret