He can be a monster heel. Period.
As far as the attitude era influence & how it (does not) skew(s) my view on AEW, I grew up on WCW. So I know what smaller promotions are capable of & WCW was good. WCW still out shadows AEW even though TK desperately wants to recreate it. 99-end was bad but I still watched. Attitude era was good but I think at the time it was so new, along with what was on tv, it really didn’t set a bar as much as it simply was captured as one of the greatest times in wrestling. Then you have the ruthlessness aggression era, the invasion, you name it. And for me, RA time was the best as that’s when we got Benoit, Jericho, Cena, Orton, Lesnar, Shelton, Kurt Angle’s push, the list goes on…..