I mean, the whole cryptic / mystery thing works when you’re a band or whatever that consistently delivers the goods. The secrecy thing also doesn’t help when the “management” are such gobshites. New music is nice, and I guess it’s a bit of a miracle we’ve gotten anything, but the reality is we’ve gotten reheated Chinese leftovers from 2 decades ago.
I hope this isn’t an Axl thing lol, but maybe Absurd, Hard Skool, and Perhaps were easier for Axl to let go of since they’d already been taken/“stolen”.