To me, they also lost some of their identity during that era. I'm not talking only about the album, but the tour as well, as they started to play A LOT of covers with no reason at all (FII was their fourth album, so they already had plenty of material to play an all original music set) and most of these songs weren't even prog. This got even worse when they started playing abridged versions of their own songs (LTL, Metropolis, Scarred, etc) but still used a considerable amount of setlist time on "classic" covers that are, to me, useless on a DT show.