You’re kind-of presuming that everyone here knows the story. Let me guess, someone has an opinion on Israel vs. Hamas?

It’s Neil, with an i. He later remarried and had another daughter, and retired from touring in 2015. He died of glioblastoma (brain cancer) in early 2020.

Less or no identity politics. If you look at fantasy books from the past, you weren’t told too much detail about the characters, such as race or sexuality. You could project your own fantasies on to them.

Example: in The Lord of the Rings, were Merry and Pippin a gay couple? Was Frodo an Incel? (We know Sam was straight, of course.) Do we care? Their actions overshadowed such details.