I see what you're saying, it's just that I also feel that electronic can be looked at in the same way. When I first started getting into electronic 13 (
fuck I'm getting old!) years ago, it was raw, no one was using it to sell cars and I remember when Fat Of The Land by Prodigy hit and commercials were using Firestarter and then later more electronic music to hippify their corporate juggernaut, and the backlash that Prodigy had.
I guess what I'm saying is that if we're going to assert that things are low because of the money machine then we're probably just focusing on the wrong aspect of the genre. Whereas there are the one-dimensional artists out there and the artists that whore themselves for a buck, there's legitimate talent out there, even in the trance genre and even in the gangsta rap genre too.