I concurr wholeheartedly and that is my general view of hardstyle although i have only been dj-ing/buying records a year and a half so i must have missed the golden age of germantrance.com.
Mark EG's prediction sounds very exciting though, lets hope this techy gubbins really starts to gather momentum soon! Also if the gap does widen do you think it will get given a new subgenre title? I don't like to pigeon hole but isn't that what will happen? we have jumpstyle (lord knows what that is, scuse my ignorance) What shall we call this one?!