The never-ending nostalgia tour wasn't doing anyone or anything any favours except Morrissey's bank account and ego.
For those of us who want Morrissey to return to putting out high-quality pop music, this break can only be a good thing, although we obviously hope he makes a full and swift recovery.
He's got to realise that offering Action Is My Middle Name and People Are The Same a full five years (i.e. longer than the lifetime of the Smiths) after his last album was recorded is simply not good enough to attract a serious record deal, and he's got to stop blaming everyone else for this.
If they really are the best songs that Jesse and Boz have come up with in 5 years (and I really hope they're not), he's got to patch things up with his previous songwriters (Street, Whyte, Marr, anyone) or get in some new blood.
He's got to stop putting out ugly, predictable, bad-taste diatribes on True to You, and try and regain the subtlety, wit and wisdom of yore.
He needs to lay low for a while - at least 6 months, and try and recapture some of that mystique that used to serve him so well.
Get well soon, S Morrissey, but please reflect on your situation, and try to follow a new trajectory.