Is techno too divided?

[MangaFish]

question for anyone who cares about philosophical threads...

do the endless and multiplying subgenres within techno add diversity or do they stifle originality by creating institutionalized boundaries that artists consciously or subconsciously adhere to?

(my own opinion is probably fairly easy to figure out)

i hate genres. i'd actually go further and say that people shouldn't be limited by techno either. if you like house, trance, breaks, whatever then why not incorperate that in your techno.

lately i've not even been limiting myself to dance and have been throwing in everything from EBM to rock (all quantised and beatmatched) in my techno mixes.