I wonder if in the past maybe the plural of kunst as in the specific mechanism was Kunsten, and the plural of the genre/knowledge was Künste, and only the latte

I wonder if in the past maybe the plural of kunst as in the specific mechanism was Kunsten, and the plural of the genre/knowledge was Künste, and only the latter has survived. That could explain why Stangenkunsten seems to be used in the English literature.