They never learn. :-)
It’s a new day. Last go round, they were run out of country music by the remaining traditional-minded and -eared audience.
“country” music has a new audience (one that has no ear for real country music), and new politics to go with the (forced) “evolution” of country. Thos time, everybody knows who The Dixie Tricks are, nonetheless, they have sold out their new tour.
I hate it, but then I quit listening to “country” radio decades ago, and listen to classic country, except dor a very few new acts whose sound, lyrics, and lifestyle (at least publicly, to my knowledge) more or less line up with my traditional style preferences.