For me, the last great Who album was the Who By Numbers. While I
like Who Are You, Face Dances, and It's Hard, and am glad the Who did
those albums, the magic, to me anyway, was gone. So, to me, the Who's
"decline" into a band that kind of lost its "edge," had begun before
Keith's death. The band, in my opinion, had already come full circle.
(Roger has used that analogy).
John