Why is Snow Patrol is putting out a "retrospective" ?

When a band has 6 studio albums, and a couple of singles what should be the next step? Snow Patrol believes the next step is to release a retrospective. What is a retrospective? A musical project that re-releases different songs from the various albums in the band's discography. Is the purpose to explore the progression the band has made as musicians, songwriters. Is it to highlight the vast diversity of music expression the band has created over time? Is is to remaster recordings that were made on lower quality equipment? Is it to introduce the music of the past to a new generation, or remix the original music?
What besides the promise of money with almost no effort could motivate a band like this to do a retrospective. They don't have to write and record new music. 

Snow Patrol creates repetitive, uninspired, goin' through the motions music that makes great soundtracks for the WB, and crappy films. They had a sound in 2003 Final Straw. They had some real potential. They quickly proved to be a one trick pony. And now they want to take the already processed and regurgitated music and recycle it. Maybe this is Green Music??
I was surfing around the internet and saw a video of a very young Paul McCartney listening to a recording of John Lennon singing "Beautiful Boy". This was filmed after John's death. It was obvious that Paul was experiencing overwhelming emotion. I thought about the lyrics of this song which are so simple, very transparent. And yet they're multidimensional and so transcending. A band like the Beatles could very reasonably have many "retrospective" projects. But NOT Snow Patrol.
Maybe it's time for another gauntlet to be thrown down Snow Patrol. Maybe it's time to write some songs, real songs with something to say, a point of view. Maybe it's time to get creative. Do this and then call the album The Line in The Sand.