I don't like that behavior any more than you do. But you know what? Morrissey makes music that is infinitely more important than Springsteen's. And I'm not even hating on Bruce, I like a few of his songs and I'm glad he's out thrilling his fans to epic concerts. No shame Bruce's way. Being inferior to Morrissey merely makes him the same as 99.7% of the other singer-songwriters in history.
The point is, Morrissey makes the great music he makes because he's simply himself. He's not a "boss", he's not a "showman", he's not carefully arranging a "career". It's what makes him Morrissey. You take the good with the bad, and the bad is, yeah, sometimes on a tour he's going to lock himself in a hotel room because he stubbed his little toe. So what? You take that way, you take away the heart and soul of his art.
The other day I visited the link to the 40 greatest rock front-men that somebody posted here. I saw a video for "Born To Run" (Live). Do you know that one? It came out when Bruce released that mega box set many years back. Great, great song, and you can't help but admire his performance in the video. What a band, too! I looked at the pre-Conan Max with newfound respect.
But as I watched I became aware of something else. The video is artfully constructed of various clips of Bruce and his band playing live all over the world. It looks like a single performance, but the clothes keep changing, it's night, then it's day, then it's an arena, then it's an open-air venue, etc. Bruce leaps up in London and lands in Newark yet the song surges forward. The message being: Bruce is the Boss. Bruce will shower Row 77 with his holy sweat. Bruce brings it 100% every time out. One Springsteen concert is as good as any other, year in and year out, any place in the world.
Sorry, but that's fast food.