Too bad he didn't overthrow the pantheon of priests as well.
Might have made for CHANGE we could all believe in.
My guess is, the priests wanted someone besides him on the throne, that he was too goofy, and golly, it turned out the priests were correct. :’) The Aten, his sun-disk deity, was something that ran in the family (it goes back to Old Kingdom times, and may have been Thutmose IV’s own favorite), and I wonder if the whole scenario has more in common with the House of Tudor than with most other parallels which have been drawn.