While this is a valid point of conjecture, just to draw a line under this immediately; 'Shadows...' is the way it is because that is how is was designed to be. So anyone who thinks the reason 'Shadows...' isn't 'Worlds...' PT2 and full of ambient interludes and crazy off the wall stuff because I was under a lot of pressure at the time is mistaken.
We didn't want to do another album that was the same and that was that. Conversely I've had a few complaints that the two albums are "too similar".
Like I said in the post above, the creative process wasn't really impacted by the "issues" at the time, however it'd be interesting to know what I could come up with if I actually spent some time playing guitar, hopefully we'll find out on the next record!
The remaining 1 % is free for all to misinterpret through this voiceless medium.