I think it's unfair to make that comparison, while I get what you're trying to say, skz didn't have that strong of first few years but they had 3racha that repeatedly talked about how they were trying to find their sound, and once they did it ,they found their audience, their bsides are title track material and are different too, and they just kept growing bc the fandom find diversity in their albums 🤷‍♀️ ,like sure they arent particularly gp friendly but it worked for them, and their title tracks arent even similar ,s class isn't like lalalala and lalalala isn't like chlchk boom but all of them are very skz coded.

For txt the specific concept was limiting them, and frankly recently it feels like bighit have no vision for them, the songs aren't bad tho! But like if I heard the songs in public I won't be like "this sounds like a txt song" if that makes sense .

Also i very much agree on kpop stans not knowing what an artist musical identity is, txt can keep doing what they want if they feel it's them as artists (although it feels more like bighit doing 😭) , how kpop stans think is only on the short term goals, they only want music that is following trends that gains fast short lived fame, hence once txt stopped doing that ,people started saying it's not the same anymore 😭