You're confusing what I meant.
Some might say that you haven't expressed yourself clearly enough, but ok!
as long as they dont release anything as boring as One More Light, no matter the direction, if its lively they will be on top of the charts more than ever.
It'll be interesting to see if they release any new music, but I think there's a strong business case for just being able to go on tour and provide nostalgia. Harder to do when missing such a visible part of the band, of course.
Someone surely has suggested that they could be playing arenas for a 25 year anniversary of Hybrid Theory next year and there's plenty of evidence to say that people will come out out to hear the old songs. Guns N Roses have been playing the same songs they played in the 80s/90s since reforming part of the classic lineup 8 years ago. Limp Bizkit are touring and they recognise that people don't want to hear anything but the old hits - they currently play the same song as the first and last song of the set! Pantera are back out on tour (ish) with stand-ins for half the band, playing just the old hits.
But even bands who have never stopped releasing music are at it too - I recently saw Underoath in a relatively small venue play their fan favourite album from 20 years ago.
I have no doubt that people going to see Linkin Park in 2025 will want to hear the intro to Crawling coming out of the PA, not "here's another new one!"
It'll be very difficult to find someone who could fill Bennington's shoes though, as with Pantera, it'd be a lot easier for audiences to accept it if someone from LP's peer group took the role - someone who people think Chester would have approved of. Scrolling through a list of 2000s bands it's hard to see who that could be, however. The fact that the guy from Sum41 was being talked about shows how there's some hunger for LP to be playing again, somehow.
