This seems as dull to me as most of the rest of the genre does. I keep skipping around the youtube clips looking for something more interesting to happen.
When my techno-loving friends play me some new techno thats supposedly breaking the mould, nine times out of ten to me it just sounds like techno. It reminds me of that bit in the Simpsons with the soccer match - the American commentator dully intoning ''A passes to B, B passes to A, A holds it, holds it, holds it", the Latin commentator screaming ''A passes to B! B to A! Holds it, HOLDS IT, HOLDS IT!"
I actually agree with you 99% of so called groundbreaking techno is anything but... but what you say about techno could also apply to rnb pop in its sonics. this is what I mean by rockism, it's a default to the intelligentsia of songful depth, of emotions more traditionally associated with the 20th century, of authenticity. I'm not really sure what can be authentic in the 21st century. which is why i don't get the journalistic/music head discourse of the sexiness of autotune, I appreciate it sonically but i really think most people are not using it to its fullist potential. yeah i get its sexy, but like, if sex and selfies are the opium of authenticity then consider me to have gone cold Turkey. now you can say oh but surely you need some kind of authenticitty? maybe but rejecting the authentic is the first step to having any hope in the future.
there is loads of clone detroit techno out there, derek carr is an example, but there's a reason why it's essentially dad techno. the first wave detroit got big because of house, it was only really around 1991-1992 that we can say this is definitely 'detroit techno' and not an abstract house.
That being said I don't buy the german narritive that they had their own techno happening at the same time as detroit, yes if by techno you mean EBM then sure, but that mutated into trance anyway. otherwise the berlin techno fetishism seems quite a bit antiblack...
Not sure what most of this has to do with bruce if only tangentially.