Unpopular opinion about Danger Days (downvote me to hell if you must)

I'm drawing inspiration from someone's meme/post about DD.

We went from songs with some dark themes (death, dying, killing, blood, and so on) to, as someone around here said, "colourful superhero shit". This was, regardless of your opinion on the albums, a major shift.

When I listen to MCR, I personally want some "yes there's major crap going on and yes life is generally terrible but there's hope", "here's a serious topic approached with some humour and sarcasm" and just theatrical dark songs in general. This is what I associate MCR with. Then there's subgenres - you can go for calmer songs, heavy songs, sarcastic songs, whatever you want.

And then... DD came along. I was a bit shocked when I listened to it.

Now, the DD songs are not necessarily bad songs so to speak. They're just not very MCRish. It's like if Eminem decided to do rock operas. He's free to do whatever he wants, but that's not really what you associate with him. Or if Beyoncé did some screamo music. You get the point.

So what I think would've worked out better is if the DD/killjoys thing had actually been a side project. Like the four of them would've gotten together and created a side project with a different name. Maybe the killjoys. Or the chemistry of killing joy. Or something like that.

Now this is gonna be niche and not really related to the topic per se but I have to point it out. It sucked for me to see an album without Bob in it. Yes, I know he wasn't around for bullets. Yes, I know he was only partially on three cheers. I know. But it totally sucked for me and that may be like 20% of the reasons I don't like DD.

Please let me know what you think; I'm really curious to know other people's opinions!