Agreed, to a point. This was a total 'shit or get off the pot' thing. We've heard about this side project, starting with the leak of the name 'Snow White Tan' in what... 2005? And Chester had already been working on tracks, it wasn't like he had JUST come up with a few ideas that he was putting down on paper and tape.
While he didn't spend much time working on it during the LP tours of 07 and 08... I mean, come on... We expected more. Fair or unfair, he knew this would be compared to what Mike did with FM. I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that we all know which one won that battle.