Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It's happened before where people have changed direction and then everyone's stopped liking their music.
I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.