Although I agree with you to a degree, dirty bass, allow me to play devil's advocate a bit, because I don't think it's quite that black and white:
Also production standards in techno as a whole I think are lower, overall than most genre`s.
Sturgeon's Law seems to apply to most genres though....if techno's production standards seem lower, that might be because less producers are making it than say house, and therefore there's a smaller pool of tunes with less gems in it.
At least with some other dance music, unless you are using genre specific loops, you do have to make some effort with composition, like house or whatever.
Heh....but with "literally anyone making it", that can often make things worse! Just like people get pissed off at a comedian who doesn't make them laugh, bad melodic or harmonic composition is going to get few to overlook it. There's a lot of amateur trance out there, for instance. Bad drums and you can just yawn and dance in a holding pattern and wish the DJ would play something interesting, but it's not necessarily going to drive you off the dancefloor.