I'm personally more into the older generation in their younger days than the younger generation of today (which some exceptions)

Hard techno has gotten harder and faster but, for me anyways, this sound is boring. All this on beat kick into off beat lift compression lifted drum/noise makes me think its taking techno down a road similar to happy hardcore, hardstyle, etc. Its gottten really cheesy for me. Where as older, slower and more minimal techno sounded more calculated and had more outside influence and feeling. More twisted wierdness too

But back to the subject I think a lot of the older guys have perhaps grown away from the original hard techno sound and are trying to do something a bit different which looses some of the younger crowds. Some have lost their drive and others are disconnected (mills wanting pop star treatment for example). It reminds me, I have recently got a copy of the un-released world service 2 Dave Clarke techno cd and its terrible. There’s no love in it.

I guess its like survival of the fittest even with music, the younger producers have more energy in them where the older ones look for something different and get pushed to the back