When you start seeing music in terms of a 'direction', you can start to dismiss things you might otherwise like because you think 'oh, well of course this is the first sign that funky is going to become too ____ because of (x,y,z) making PI + the square root of gabba'...
I don't really think so, especially not if you've been involved for a number of years with music that definitely
has carried a narrative whether you like to admit it or not. Again, all 'nuum theory aside, having gotten into grime in around '04/'05, then following it through dubstep and funky, educating myself in all the old garage tunes, the narrative aspect of the music is really unavoidable regardless of how much or how little thought you devote to it.
Any tremors, disruptions, progressions, it's all as if someone has come into your room and very slightly moved the furniture around. You decide whether you move it back again, but you can't deny it moved.