he was so far out of touch it was insane
it was his mid-life crisis: to take a break from the thing he loved doing only to start rapidly stagnating, realizing his mistake, then he just made a bunch of haphazard decisions while scrambling to get back into the industry
instead of being a humble guy who would spend some time derusting, he acted wholly arrogant, faking it til he made it with his new studio
except he never made it