I mean, I don't think it's really about a played out defense. Maybe they just consider that song to be a filler track from that album and don't look back fondly on it so they don't play it live. A lot of modern metal musicians are streaming in their free time these days, and I have heard a good handful of them talk about certain tracks always just being there to fill up a gap they had on the length of the album, as well as having favorites/least favorite tracks from each album. If I wrote a song that I just thought was kind of meh, I probably wouldn't play it live since I'd assume most people also think it's kind of meh.

And, noiceee. I always enjoy the instrumental work from them since it's always pretty wild.