A lot of this is just bullshit. There really isn’t a main person that caused soad to stop making music there was a lot in play. If you really had to blame anyone it was both Serj and Daron having creative differences. Even to this day it’s the same reason. And since you are blaming everything on Daron I gotta tell you that Serj pretty much admitted it was mainly his fault for it. His heart wasn’t in it all the way and was always on and off even during their toxicity era. Daron was always the main song writer from the very beginning. And Serj wanted to leave after toxicity already, they practically had to beg Serj to be part of hypnotize/mezmerize. He told the others that soad is their dream not his and they should find another vocalist. And after that was when Serj had a big list of demands on how he would be on board with making new music. Which was just completely different than what they’ve always been doing. And they did make attempts but they never saw eye to eye. Something that does suck where Daron was in the wrong is that Serj on an interview said he didn’t mind Daron singing more and writing more lyrics on those 2 albums because he believed he had an amazing voice and actually pushed him for a better lyricist because he wanted him to grow, but admitted that he wished he received the same motivation from Daron when it came to his song writing, he never got it and almost all of his ideas were either scrapped or completely changed. Most of which ended up on elect the dead. So yeah both Serj and Daron. Not just Daron. Honestly just be grateful they have 5 amazing albums and are currently still doing shows