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 That is most often the case.

Change takes too much work.
Much easier to vent one's spleen in catharsis and return to the norm.
Rinse and repeat. 
 Most artists, the ego weighs a lot; which makes it impossible for them to be a “Nakamoto” of life - to create for the world, while their identity is will preserve by their own free will. 
 That squares with my experience.