I respect your opinions, but I realize this angle:
No one is asking for a Dire Straits return. But he need to respect
the fans who are the ones who voted, besides those that as well as follow your career from the beginning, in addition to the new generations of fans of the band... All of this is in question and should be considered as well, the band's history is alienated from its legion of fans, one thing does not exist without the other, so with any band or artist, "a two-way street", it's a pity see people looking at it as a "one-way street"
I keep saying there are other artists who care more for fans. No longer enough the fact, since beginning his solo career, he continues to play practically the same songs as DS, and continues to deny us songs like Tunnel of Love, among others he has not played for more than 30 years, Southbound Again, News, Single Handed Saillor, Love Over Gold ... Dalling Preatty was in 1996, as well as Vic and Ray, Jukie Doll in 2001, so since 2008 his shows have the same structure, he does not care what his fans would like to hear at his shows. He do not care how happy millions of fans around the world be if he played some songs on that occasion from the RRHF in April.
I have seen people commenting that "it is better that way", or, "that the world has the image of the young Dire Straits", as if age were a monster that made this occasion unfeasible, I think it a mixture of conformism as well as lack of sensitivity, already Mark is Dire Straits and is alive and fully capable of playing DS songs. If the problem is an Achemy SOS height performance, why not Wild West End or Down to The Waterline? It would represent very well! By coincidence, there are 40 years of the release of the first album.
It is in these hours that it is hard to be a fan of Mark Knopfler, one can pay a bitter price for these types of egocentric attitudes.