I'm always surprised at the "folks didn't dig TOT/TA/ANYDTALBUM because it was too HEAVY/BROADWAY/SOMESTYLE" point.
I love prog, all styles of metal, pop, rock, jazz. And discovering DT in 2000 made a huge impact on my appreciation of how various musical flavours can co-exist together in moving, coherent songs. It's my absolute favourite aspect of the band, and their unique quality, imo. I can't think of another band that pulls it off so well.
TOT/TA just didn't quite succeed, imo. Great efforts, and masses of respect for trying them both, but they just weren't that great, afaic. Just way too many cringe-worthy moments in both, for me.
It's not the musical style of these records that's the problem for me. I think that's too simple and obvious an explanation for their divisiveness.