RVD's answer was a smidge different when it came to the question of creativity, however. But even then, RVD didn't go the expected route of criticizing McMahon's often maligned creative vision as opposed to Heyman's acclaimed run leading ECW. Rather, he cited Heyman largely working on his own as the big edge, whereas McMahon delegated certain creative responsibilities.
"Paul's extremely creative," RVD said. "That's one of his gifts I think. And maybe this is where D-Von was saying he didn't delegate as much, because...Vince did. He would have a room full of writers, people pitching different ideas and stuff. Vince still has to be the top creative guy, and he makes all of the decisions. But...maybe just cause Paul had to come up with everything on his own that wasn't pitched by the boys, and was a passion project idea or something, and I think it took a lot of creativity for him to...depending on how much of Todd Gordon's book you believe and how much credit you want to give him or how much you want to give to Todd, I think that his ability to be able to combine social factors of current society with wrestling was an amazing winning formula."