Genre Hopping | Pick a Thread

Based on what I have written lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about genre hopping in fiction. Is it advisable? Does it work? Does it hurt the author’s brand and confuse readers?

There is a lot of conflicting advice on the subject on the internet. At first search, I found several articles about just this subject (linked below this post). Each of these has a different opinion, if they take an opinion at all, and most people who speak or write on the subject seem to take a hard line one way or t...