@MrKerosene
This time is different.
Duff is a really nice and humble guy, so seems to be Dave.
Lets face some facts here: If it wasnt for Duff and his wife(and Mary, obviously), Scott wouldnt have joined VR in the first place...
Nowadays, Scott's friendship with Duff, is still great. They probably talked to each other and well, maybe Duff and Dave have no problem to have Scott back in the band.
But Matt and Slash think different.
So, Duff surely said something like "well, yeah, why not? we can work it out" and... Scott opened his big mouth and fucked it up, announcing to the world that VR IS BACK...when the truth is different.