Maybe stop living in the past and using Hunt as a barometer? The bloke is gone, he's shit and never won anything for the club. DCE has already won a comp for his club, he also won the Clive Churchill in a separate game, just to emphasise his impact in big games. Hunt shit the bed and single handedly lost us the game in the biggest game of his life, and continues to do so at every level of the game.
Let's play a game, I'll do a comparison between the two using the key aspects of an NRL Halfback, and you tell me which of them you disagree with.
Running game - Hunt
Passing game - DCE
Defense - DCE
Short kicking game - DCE
Long kicking game - DCE
Field goal kicking - DCE
Goal kicking - DCE
Game management - DCE
Clutch moments - DCE
Making players around them better - DCE