To me it largely is all the same, and with a steady be it slow rate of deviance it would eventually not be techno. There’s a reason the same machines and sounds are widely used since inception, it’s good and it works. For a down to earth feel I’d say.
It’s the drum being hit and the dancing around the fire that is important, needing endless variety, in some ways, is just a symptom of unhealthy modern life with an excess of information and variations.
While I do love new sounds, and being taken to new places and appreciate all the innovation over the years, getting back to the basics is always a good thing.
So, a devotee, so to speak, submitting and being accepted by an originator and to have the originator mistake it for their own is kind of inevitable.
Mistakes happen, everyone is human, and all 909s sound alike.
To be fair the perspective of seeing it as ‘generic and stale’ is totally valid, just one of the multiple truths.
And if that’s all our friends from beyond are up to, well, geez, come on let’s see some proper fuckry!