Fortunately I can't find anywhere else reporting this, in fact the trend has been that Costco is cracking down on membership more to prevent people sharing it.
You farmed part of your brain out to the cloud. You deprived part of your gray matter the exercise that it needs.
Easy to do at first, sure. But like a fit person who begins to vegetate and starts to atrophy, you will gradually find it harder and harder to come up with your own, original ideas.
I always wondered how James felt as they were working on that.
"Guys...? Are you sure you don't need vocals...? I have some really great ideas...Okay..."
He's better than the guy they had on their first album, but DT was always dragged down a little by the vocals. Thankfully the others more than made up for it.
I kind of checked out after Systematic Chaos. Might have to revisit and see what they've been making lately.