Sam, look... who cares about the name?
either you like it or not..

for me, there is just more than one view on how should hard techno sound like
I mean, it deff wouldnt be good if hard techno still sounded like older Beyer releases, wouldn it?
with so many different producers and labels, sound changes

and of course there's lots of crap, we've been on that subject too much times already, wont go there.
I see on some other boards people praising poor releases, produced and/or mastered obviously by deaf people

but its the same in every genre
and I can't say all schranz is bad, cause from time to time I find some releases (from artists most people consider "schranz") that are good and work on the dancefloor..

will we create dozens of new subgenre names every year or two? or is it easier to say "i like this kind of hard techno, but I dont like that one"
maybe you like the porsche, but hate Volvo at the same time.. but you're still driving a thing called a CAR...

evenn if you drive a Yugo, you can still say you drive a CAR.. although Yugo is a KARA..