It would be great to have Scott be in both bands. VR coulda been Scotts APC. I don't know if that would have worked out either, but it beats the hell out of the options out there now for the VR guys.
I agree, but the people involved on both sides are too combustible in their personalities to make that work. I would have been very content to see, in the next 10 years, 2 VR albums & 2 STP albums & some minor projects for each of the individuals.
Instead, VR will be dead or dying, and (praying this doesn't happen) STP might implode again for a several year hiatus, and we'll all be stuck. And you know the circus that is the old GNR lineup will not be able to pass up the money, they'll tour and we'll see them wanting to strangle each other all over again.