The only good trance is psytrance and none of your (ever so neatly organised) bullet points above apply to psytrance.
Go get some Juno Reactor, Cosmosis, X-Dream, Slinky Wizard, Bumbling Loons.
Those are a small selection of artists.
Labels to check out are: Flying Rhino, TIP, Transient, Blue Room, Cosmophilia, Krembo (Israeli trance (my fav).
Until you have checked out these things, I'm afraid all your opinions on trance music are null and void
