ive liked some of the electro stuff, im not sure its half arsed just intentionally minimal, i agree though there hasnt been anything released for a while thats been particularly hard or as intricate as the older productions were but id like to see a good balance of electro trance and hard trance releases as i find place for both in my record collection :)

but yeah you are right the balance needs to be addressed and some more quality hard productions need to appear