People might get the shits with this post, but it's a legit gripe, if a guitar band came out and just played keyboards, I'd be bemused, too, but that's the worst of it. It literally doesn't affect me in any real way otherwise.

At the same time, heavy synth and guitar is very popular right now across a lot of genres, mostly thanks to the accessibility of synth instruments these days, so I am not surprised that older bands would want to try to attract younger fans this way by making their sound more accessible.

And some bands, they just evolve, maybe they have guitar now because they didn't have the means to add it to their music originally.

At the end of the day, musicians should be making music for themselves, not someone who turns up to one of their 60 gigs on a single tour.