Heckingbottom is a limited manager who'll quickly get sussed out (and sacked) in the premier League. You can just about get away with an attritional grinding approach in the championship if you have quality players.
They're hardly steamrolling teams as it is. Those 1-0s will quickly turn into 0-0s and 1-0 defeats against better sides.
I suspect on some level they know they're lucky Wilder wasted our start to the season and they're not really the second best team in the championship. A lot of bitterness on display for a team who are pretty much promoted, almost as if they know deep down they got a bit lucky. It's as if we spoiled the achievement for them in some way.
Carrick just oozing class as per.