As I referenced above, Rob Haigh is hyper intellectual and that didnt stop him making some of the biggest bangers in dance music history.
an experimental probe towards an answer to this:
perhaps when a scene is really really strong, it can cope with a few middle class types? it can absorb, assimilate - bend them to its collective will.
historically there are actually quite a number of M/C creatives in rave / hardcore / jungle / UKG etc - and punters too obviously.
(in the piece i did earlier year on Rob Haigh I remark on the Hertfordshire connection with jungle - St Albans, Hatfield, Stevenage boys playing their part - Rob Playford isn't posh but he's also not exactly a street solja - Moving Shadow's publicist for many years, Lady Caroline was actually a Lady lady, had a title!)
You would run into all types on the dancefloor and in the chill out spaces... barristers who were off their nuts on pills all weekend
Yet the dominant values and vibe of rave/ jungle / etc were determined by its working class majority. and by black values.
But when you get a scene that is very largely composed of M/C, products of higher education, people whose day job might be in information technology or something like that... the vibe is going to be different.
it's to do with function and internal dynamics, energy flows and thresholds of dis-inhibition... how quickly things get released or ignite
The music doesn't serve the same purpose as it does for people working 9/5 in jobs that are unrewarding in both the financial and satisfaction senses
(as for bad boys, crime is hard work - even more need to let off steam at the weekend)
I got a sense of this viscerally when i went to a mnml house-techno thing in Berlin some years ago, everything puttering along at the same level of intensity, no feeling of a peak being surged towards, no sense of anything being vented through the music). no sense of a crowd identity. there were no rituals like rewinds or even hands in the air moments. it was diffuse on every level from the approach to mixing, to the internal composition of the tracks, to the energy levels in the crowd. lot of people standing around talking or drinking.