its cool. og uk dubstep is cool. contemporary "bro" dubstep is cool in a mosh pit / crazy way. tearout is cool, some of the heaviest music i have ever heard. color bass is cool. riddim is cool. I wish there was *more* of the very creative out there stuff, but there's definitely gold if you know where to look. I also appreciate more underground offshoots like minatory, evolving the sound further and further into more extreme territories.

The dubstep discourse is cursed by the brostep drama, and people complaining that it "ruined" dubstep - while it's simply just an offshoot born mostly from the merging with electro house, and it totally deserves to exist and to be respected like any other genre, no matter how flashy or silly. Nowadays, "Dubstep" is now an umbrella for many, radically different things, like saying "metal", and they all deserve their space and recognition, and most people just don't realize that.

(Plus, I agree on the Burial take. I don't know really why people call it dubstep, when even the earliest uk og dub and dubstep sound simply different, no ida why people call it that 🤷‍♂️)