In the 90 - 92 era they were pretty beat and their future was shaky. I don't think if they knew were they ever gonna play again, especially if things were gonna be as crazy as before. But then they fired the lawyers and the management and decided to give it another shot, or something.

After the These Days tour they were definately gonna be together in the future. They just decided to take a little hiatus, release some solo records etc. The next record was gonna be released in 98 or 99, but then their producer died and their record company got sold, so that pushed things back a bit.

But they definately weren't gonna break up after 96, not too sure about that early 90s era, though...