Nice job finding bands that fit your point, although I wouldn’t include people like Ozzy, who’s glad he remembers his own name. Now try bands from the same rank, magnitude, or field, so to speak – you can use the Power Trip festival for reference: Metallica, Iron Maiden... hell, even AC/DC. What’s their frequency? And what are they doing for the fans between albums in terms of videos etc.? No, there is absolutely nothing normal about GNR’s approach, especially not considering they’ve slowly become just a legacy touring band yet keep dangling all sorts of carrots about working on new stuff etc. Your apologetics is futile.
Oh wait, it’s all because of the covid thing, isn’t it? It slowed everything down!