I agree that he HAS to play x amount of hits during a show, they all have to do that for the audience that comes to hear the hits. For example, I went to the Scorpions last Friday and I would've been terribly disappointed if they hadn't done Wind of Change, Still Loving You, Rock You Like A Hurricane, Big City Nights etc.
But my biggest gripe is: If he thinks so highly of their last few albums, why do we get the same songs again and again? LH, The Circle, WAN, BB and THINFS all have decent to very good tracks. Yet we always get Lost Highway, We Got It Going On, I Love This Town, Born To Follow, Working Man, Because We Can etc.
There are tons of album cuts there that would be great for diehards to listen to and the general audience wouldn't care because they don't know the songs either way in most cases.
Play songs like Any Other Day, Love's The Only Rule, I'm With You, I'm Your Man etc. from time to time and us diehards would probably be a lot more happy.