to add to the thread, part of the reason why I gave up all clubbing at beginning of 2017, well, apart from being sectioned, was that a lot of the stuff we wanted to avoid in techno clubs, supersaw eurotrance, tech house, late 90s funkless swedish one bar loop gear was making its return. The hard/distorted kickdrum/greyscale/industrial stuff of the early 2010s from the likes of Ancient Methods, Orphx, Mike Parker, L.I.E.S, Truss etc was a welcome development after the mnml clickety clack fest.
But what makes techno specifically techno, (at least of the European detroit-influenced kind) and why it's difficult for outsiders to get with is that it is very specifically in some senses an intervension into the industrial music continuum as much as it is disco. To make the music from bands like Clock DVA and Cabaret Voltaire more funky, more mathematical and geometric in some ways.
When this key thread is lost, you just end up getting the overwhelming dominance of the eurodisco continuum. Always a case of tempered instincts to unleash maximum dancefloor destruction.
Now one could say isn't that limiting techno? And in the European context sure. But there is also the lineage one can tap in right from 92 hardcore into the force inc/praxis, dj.ungle fever cologne, (and later subhead, ugly funk) etc lineage. This is rave techno but in a specifically 92 ardkore (I wouldn't even say jungle) format. But instead of pianos and chipmunk vocals you get globular attitudinal synths and skipping beats, general noise nastiness, 303 or otherwise.
Now these lines do often cross each other. Wonky techno was big in Germany with lots of productions on obscure labels, and you could convincingly argue that the archetypical tresor/berghain sound was forged more so in Birmingham than it was Berlin.
But I do not think these hipster types are dancing to much of this sound. If they are its incidental. It's probably more the sounds of the likes of Charlotte De Witte, Amilie Lens, Bicep etc.
So things really have not changed much from the 90s superclub era in that regard.