'Time' to ... 'Dance' ??

[DownOnRodeo]

The Time album is in 1995. Yet Mick got re-acquainted with Lindsey and recorded GOS with him around 1995. Surely John and perhaps even Christine were involved at that point.
Yet Mick still does a new album and tour with a whole new set of people. Around this time he would have been lobbying like a madman to get the original FM up and running again. So where's the sense in pushing for this new FM incarnation running at the same time. Was Mick not really thinking things through and sort of on autopilot/treadmill by having FM always running at whatever cost? I don't believe the prospect of Lindsey re-joining only sprung up in 1996.
I'm confused.