I think it all depends. Every genre has their sellouts IMO. Does the necessarily spell the doom for what we know today? i don't think so. Many people won't listen to things without vocals. I've shown some of my fav. songs to my friends and none of them are listening to them beyond maybe once or twice before they go back to the pop and rock and rap and whatever else they listen to.

The genre is evolving, as someone goes commercial to make a few bucks the quality of sound goes down as more tracks are needed, and they are forgotten about in a few years, to be replaced by someone else.

If i was a DJ i'd spin for money for more music, not for anything else, but it's easy to say that now.

My 2 cents, and i probably contradicted myself somewhere.

Hehehe... no, you had some good points that I totally agree with... It was actually the same thing I was thinking, but forgot to mention. One of distressing things that come with commercialization (I'm not even sure if that's a word =P) is that there are so many people out there more interested in making that buck than the music itself. The result is an influx of all these low quality, assembly line tracks being made and it ruins it for the fewer quality ones because the crap has become the majority, and that feeling is reflected on the whole genre. That's a lot of the reason why I moved off trance onto progressive, even tracks that aren't my style or my taste still usually display quality and creativity through their structure, elements, and how well the elements were chosen or manipulted to match with each other.