Why is bands breaking up for the most part just not a thing anymore...

Why is bands breaking up for the most part just not a thing anymore? It used to be that a band would do their best work and then break up, or they'd do their best work and maybe make one bad album and be like, "Whoops, guess this doesn't work anymore" and they modestly resign. You just never hear about that happening anymore, bands are like, "NO! We carry on," even when the circumstances that provoked their best work have passed, and it becomes this weird game of keeping the name alive with zero integrity.

Money (no pun intended towards your pic)

Because most bands today are full of hacks who care more about money more than artistic credibility or even about their egos anymore.

I thought that pic was Lauren Mayberry at first

Because being in a band is fun idk. More musicians are around now so you can be in a band with your friends instead of random people who just play instruments

And do you think pop music wasn't full of hacks that only care about money then? Hell, the main reason the beatles broke up was because of fucking money. Guys like those in pink floyd only "break up" because they already made a shit ton of money and just don't even care anymore, not because some heavenly artist sensibility.

This, can't afford to retire as early.

>the main reason the beatles broke up was because of fucking money
Someone explain

hype williams broke up so you're wrong

But pic related and plenty of other artists tied to that era continued pumping out shit long past their sell by date. Give some better examples of artists who stopped at a respectful time in their career.