Yeah it would have been a nice moment, but you shouldn't just do that to the title. Bret Hart wanted to do that and look what happened.
Bret Hart had just signed a deal with WCW. Mick Foley had no deal in place with WCW. Not to mention what happened that night ended up being a boon for them, anyway.
Plus I highly doubt Foley would WANT to take the spotlight away from Hunter and Rock after he just spent the last 2 months getting Hunter over.
Funny, I remember Foley spending the last two months putting over The Rock to build him up for WM, where he lost and lost a rematch at Backlash. But his popularity stuck pretty damn well, if you ask me.
Besides, by not taking the glory for himself, it ended up being all about Vince McMahon again. The whole thing left a lot of bad tastes in people's mouths, at it was the beginning of BACKSTAGE POWERZ HHH.
Selling out the future to pop the fans today is what got WWE into its current mess.
You're assuming that if Foley won, Rock and HHH would have never been as big as they became. Nevermind the fact that Rock was already huge and was going to continue being huge or that HHH wasn't going anywhere no matter what the objections (seriously, you think Mick Foley winning at WM was enough to end HHH's career?).
Choosing to celebrating an aging for one night in his illustrious career by having him win on the biggest stage of them all wasn't going to permanently derail either of these guy's careers. That's completely different from what the WWE does now (routinely put over the same guys and give spots to proven stars all the time).
We could have had another great WM moment and instead no one wants to remember WM2000's ending, or if they do they remember it bitterly.
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TheRock ~ Slow dramatic zoom-pan. Doesn't phase the hooded man.
"You have issues." - MWC. Pot. Kettle.