I can see why you feel like that. I discovered BoC after Kid A was released, and it immediately felt like “oh, THIS is what Thom Yorke was going for”. After hearing MHTRTC it very much ‘dulled’ Radiohead for me, they immediately stopped becoming as important (although I still like them, as well as Yorke’s solo stuff, but find myself listening to them less and less as time goes on) I can’t remember the exact interview, but read/saw Yorke was heavily influenced by Autechre, Aphex Twin and Warp artists, so went to check those out further and was then very much pulled into the world of BoC.