It will pass
The growing dissent between enjoyers of this genre is actually measurable right now.
Remember dubstep? Around 2005-2010 the genre was living its creative heyday. Profilic producers put out tunes that were out of this world. Mala, Coky, Skream, Benga etc... they were creating music and soundscapes seldomly found before. And then came Burial in 2007 and released the single best dubstep album of all time with "Burial." But it was still a relatively unknown scene, with the majoriy of the people not even knowing such a genre as dubstep existed. It was a community.
And then in 2010, a fella from the USA named Sonny Moore, better known as "Skrillex" released Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites, and dubstep exploded into the global scene. Suddenly every huge festival was playing dubstep, hundreds of new producers arose like Flux Pavilion, Datsik, Excision, and every last one of them tried to outdo the other one. They created increasingly obnoxious pieces of music with high-pitches screeching, harder, more agressive, until "dubstep" or "brostep" (however you want to call it) became its own parody, and quietly sank back into its earlier existence. The crowd who swore for 3 years that they are lifelong dubstep fans disappeared, searching for the next craze.
The same thing is happening with techno. Okay, Techno was always a bit of a larger scene, and we have already seen derivations of it entering the mainstream (i am looking at you, early 2000´s eurodance), but in the last few years, techno just blew up. First it started with slower romps, like i remember that the 125-132 bpm range was very popular a few years back. Charlotte De Witte, Enrico Sangiuliano, Space92 and some other people blew up immensely, getting booked at tomorrowland mainstages and so on.. and then someone 1upped them.
Harder, faster music came... some of my favourite producers including Jacidorex and I Hate Models stopped doing their own thing, and started to do "hard techno" that is not even hard techno. Its more like Hard EDM. They started to remix Britney Spears, Old 90s tracks for nostalgia bait, and the worst one i´ve seen yet is a remix of Daddy Yankees "Gasolina" with hundreds of thousands of plays on soundcloud. Mainstream media gobbled techno up, tiktok came, instagram came, people who have no idea what they are hearing are cheering at the front rows of festivals, only to post content to tiktok and instagram. A new breed of producers and djs rose up, people who do not want to create innovative music, who do not want to move the genre forward, they only want clout, so they can get booked on festivals and get the big money. Lots of imaginary or real sugbenres evolved, including psytechno, which is basically psytrance under a different name, bochka, "bouncy techno" (i am looking at you, 2000s eurodance) and lots of others, becasue everyone needs to stay relevant, stay unique so the algorythm picks them up. The worst i heard so far is "storytelling techno." Makes absolutely zero sense to me. Do not misunderstand me, i am not the genre police, but this is becoming absolutely ridicolous.
Now we are at the stage where a guy in a unicorn head mask is playing literal speedcore to college-aged kids, and when you try to call out the extreme trash nature of this on a social media platform, you are labelled a hater. Harder, faster, more extreme, more agressive, giving zero fucks about artistic integrity, or artistic merit, value or anything else. Clout. Clout. Give me more instagram reel views, give me more tiktok followers.
And yet i am not worried. Because we are very close to the end. We have reached the stage where a guy in an unicorn mask, a muscular gymbro in a priest mask and some other people are the frontrunners of festivals. What these people do not realize, that they are products. Products who were developed by managements, who want nothing more, just engament, clout, and money. We are on the verge of the whole scene becoming a parody of itself again, just like with dubstep. And when that happens, the tiktok kids will migrate to another genre, the ketamine unicorn brothers will simply vanish, and techno will sink back into its own place, just like dubstep after 2014.
And sometime in the future, it will start all over again.