I think the fair question to ask that we will probably never get a straight answer to is what Axl's feelings are about releasing new music. His vocals are never going to be like they were on AFD or UYI and unfortunately he gets criticisms for how he sounds live now. Even CD Axl was more UYI era sounding then he has on the recent releases which alot have had a lot of filtering in like in the general and perhaps. He probably has a vault of unreleased music somewhere. When they do tour while we fans that come to sites like these love to hear new music i think alot of the fans that do go want to hear the hits from yesteryear and when they do play a hard skool or the general or perhaps their is not as much of a sentimental connection like with sweet child or paradise city or nighttrain. And axl unfortunately isn't getting younger and not sure how many more years left he has the desire I don't know if he can be like mick jagger dancing and singing into his 70s.
We will just have to take what we get whether its touring, a single release here and there and as far New New material only time will tell.