This is a ridiculous post. I too tend to listen to what originally got me into the scene, but there is some FINE music being produced. If you look at trance charts it's mostly trash. I have a few favourite racks from this year I really hope you take the time to listen to and hopefully appreciate.
"If you listen carefully to vintage trance, you find amazing soundscapes that took many hard-earned hours to sculpt." It's pretty unfair to assume everyone doesn't do this. I've spent the last two years working on my craft, and sound design is a very important part of it for me. I completely agree that a lot of people abuse the preset and, "I'll come back to this later so I won't bother remembering it." The saddest part about the scene for me is that songs don't last. You write a hit and a month later no one remembers. It just kills me that (me for example) people are so passionate about the scene and you just write everyone off as trash. My life has become Trance, so I hope if I ever write anything decent one day people won't just dismiss me so easily.
Giuseppe Ottaviani - Linking People (2005)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Sd7-HVJR0
Adam Ellis - Mandarine (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El4T2YRQ4J4
John O'Callaghan - One Special Particle (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-1HwcdLJJM
Sebastian Brandt - Repercussion (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FER38roosgc
Jordan Suckley - Elation / Contaminated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RxCm804nW0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIR6VBQxGzk
Luke Terry - Ice Cap (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3xzF95YEPg