Good words Dustin. Interesting.

I tends to think after its all said and done that the "saturation" thing is what stirs most negative responses these days. For example, if you're and artist that doesnt happen to be making the current narrow trend then you simpply get left out in the cold which generates a frustration that becomes genre bashing....simple action reaction stuff.

thats why I like how you said that there should be some "middle ground" somehow that allows the use of a variety of styles and influences depending on set/setting.....

The current narrowness of the trends as they happen now simply generates too many band-wagon'ers who churn out anything remotely like the trend sound and isolates peeps, as I said. That generates the negative reaction to an otherwise good piece of work.