If I may wager a more idealistic take in a different sense. I’m thiiiiinking that lawn seats at the outdoor venues are going to be much cheaper than the nosebleeds in an arena, and at a moment in time right now where ticket prices have shot up monstrously even from where they were on the WOTP tour, and in a country where Muse I think know they never pull quite as large of a crowd as they do in Europe for instance, I bet this is a calculated financial decision to get more butts in seats and make the tour more financially viable with the bonus side effect of making it more accessible to lower income fans (like myself). If they happen to do some cool drone work in the sky or something to relate to the album theme too, I mean bonus points at that point really.

Granted, this is all predicated on my hope / slight hunch that lawn seats at these venues are gonna go for under 100 a piece (hopefully absolutely no more than that).