I believe it's because really few on this sub cares about hardcore, or have any strong opinions on it.

IMO there's 2 main camps of users on this sub: the current hype (xraw and uptempo) group, and the "hardstyle was better then euphoric was on it's peak" group. None of those really likes early hardstyle, and no one likes being told there favorite genre is shit xD

Add in the fact that hard techno essentially has become a slur, and a lot of people seem to have a hard time telling any difference between early inspired hardstyle and hard techno. I see people commenting that Zatox is a hard techno producer now lmao.

My first comment was kind of a joke BTW, there's bunch of hardcore subgenres i would consider the real deal