Couldn't agree more. A genre of industrial I hardly touch for instance is aggrotech, almost all of it is newer stuff. Same droning pounding drum beat with some blips in the background that are ALSO the same repetitive thing, with a "vocalist" so synthesized that you can't even consider them a singer of any sort at this point, gurgling incoherent babble the WHOLE song. Now, there are many of these elements that were in older industrial, I'll admit, but in those days the artists would arrange them to be *gasp* actually interesting! Just imo. Now any jackass with five brain cells can get on their laptop, open up some cheat program like Frooty Loops, make a stupid drum beat, add three layers of the same note over and over again, sprinkle obligatory B horror movie voice samples, and there you go, what I consider crap but many in this scene are calling "awesome". Makes me irate, honestly, I refuse to believe that kids are this stupid now...but then there's emo running around still and bands like Brokencyde.
Our future is looking grim, and I don't mean grim in the traditional dark industrial sense, like the bad sort of grim...
Editing to note that Nocker recently forced me to stand corrected about newer industrial/electro by introducing me to new bands that aren't the repetitive bland regurgitated-watered-down-techno types. So there is SOME hope in the world left I suppose.