Truly a great read about the entire BS controversy, tbh he sums up there what I've been thinking all along! I've always assumed that Mick was maybe kinda a bit influenced by cancel culture in his decision to not play BS anymore but I also thought his main motivation to drop it is because of Karis and her kids, I mean they're at an age now where they'd probably question that (influenced by not only being part black themselves but also cancel culture and Black Lives Matter) and in return make Mick question it as well, even if I also agree with what Keith said about the song in that 2021 interview, but more recently Keith also has pointed out multiple times that he just let's Mick decide on setlist because as Bill German also so correctly pointed out, Mick is the one who has to sing the songs, so yeah...it's quite obvious tbh...if you don't listen to the lyrics it's a very fun song to hear live but well, Mick has to sing them
Funnily enough when getting to hear BS in 2018 (for some reason I don't remember it from my first show in 2017) I listened to the lyrics too closely amd didn't like it and the morning after the show even had a random chat about it with some other Stones fan at the hotel while checking out xD but last year when seeing some Stones cover band, I really enjoyed listening to BS because it's just such a nice dance song and really fun, I even recorded them play it here
But when during the upcoming tour they hopefully play WWW and Mess it Up and that's enough dance songs and we don't need BS then to tick that box on the setlist