Touring.....The Story So Far(!/?)

I'm curious as to how bands who are on the road constantly have enough life experience with which to write songs around.  The term "song" seems up for debate, especially when you're around people who ignore the dictionary, but even when lyrics are included, the notion of a SONG can get kind of polluted often, IMO.  A lot of bands have minimal to no melody in their music, and sometimes a little trace of melody and a barely discernable backbeat and it's referred to as "catchy" and "poppy" in certain circles.  Build To Spill opens one of their albums with such a song.  Seattle-grunge founders Mudhoney made a similar album starter back in 1989, the same year Nirvana's BLEACH came out.  People who have no appreciation for pop music overlooked Nirvana's debut in favor of the druggy space dazed sounds of Mudhoney and their ilk, but music industry executives know a good thing when they see it and Nirvana was able and willing to take the world by storm with their direct and dynamic songwriting. All they needed was the help of MTV and FM radio.  Most radio stations for whatever reason back then anyway didn't bother playing music that wasn't on a major label...although that started to change it seemed around 1994...I read something somewhere indicating that the record label that released Live's THRWOING COPPER (Radioactive Records) was bought out by Universal Music, but most presses of that album mention no conglomerate in the copyright info.  And The Offspring's SMASH was released on an indie as well, and is still their most highly regarded album. That phase in the history of FM radio didn't last long tho and as far as I know those were the only two exceptions to the "major label only" rule that radio stations seemed to live by...
I'm anticipating a release by this band called The Story So Far, whose debut was so-so...their follow up is freakin' KLASSIK! and their 3rd album is pretty good too.  I'm a little nervous about their 4th album, but I believe they got what it takes to pull it off without pissing off a good chunk of their fanbase.  Their Facebook page seems to indicate they are STILL ON TOUR!  Their 3rd album came out in 2015, back in February or March, I think...why aren't they in the studio laying down music?  ARe they going to go on like Aerosmith and just live their life like it's a freaking party and then hire someone else to write their music?  Surely their pockets aren't deep enough to afford all that....
Anyway........didn't read The Bible yesterday...I'm feeling tired now, but I don't WANT to go to sleep...I've been feeling that way for awhile now...damnit, I need to go to the bathroom now, just went a little while ago, it seems like anyway...liquid comes in, it must go out...sad state of affairs, but so it is........