I don't know if I agree with that, wienke. I like whatever I feel sounds good, and from what I can observe, trance is super popular and there are less hardcore idiots. On a lot of ASOT episodes, and even at live events, Armin would always say, and I'm paraphrasing here, to never be a prisoner of your own style, and he branched out to include tastes as well. Do I like the hard stuff? Yeah, but it should NOT be the ONLY thing to like. It's more of liking multiple things. I don't see how trance is hated in the grand scheme of things.
Side note: People bitch about everything, even those fuckers that bitch and moan that anime is not like the 80s and 90s. They try to claim that the medium is dying when it's totally wrong and untrue. There's different types to like and if it's really bad, call out on it and not paint some broadbrush that the whole thing is dying.