As much as I understand the sentiment and your disapproval of how ASOT has changed over the past decade (even more radically over the past 3 years, I've noticed that as well), I don't see how and why we as fans of the "original" genre can and should have any input on how he does and names his show. It's
his show, after all.
As others have mentioned before, even if trance isn't explicitly played on the show, people are made aware of the existence of the genre. I myself for example discovered Armin back in 2014 when I heard Save My Night on the radio and ASOT2015 was the first compilation I've listened to. When Armin started streaming the episodes on YouTube in Spring of 2016, I started to listen to the show itself as well causing me to become even more of a fan than I already was. Despite both the compilations and the show being filled with mostly big room and progressive house tunes at the time, I've still come to appreciate the older trance songs from the times before he tried to appeal to a more mainstream audience. I've distanced myself from the show itself since 2018 or so, only keeping up with the compilations, but I would not have discovered the "original" genre if Armin had chosen not to refer to his music as trance music. Therefore, I still believe that his current influence on the genre as a whole is pretty good at best and neutral at worst.
Having said that, I understand why you'd want to see the name change to reflect the shift to him playing (melodic) techno and progressive house and such on the show. As I see it however, we'd lose our biggest step-in to trance if he actually decided to stop calling his music trance; he
is the biggest trance artist around at the moment after all, even if he doesn't always make or play it. If you're not interested in whatever it is he plays, there are thousands of other trance artists, labels and platforms around who could satisfy your needs: as mentioned, he himself recommends some of them as well.
So to summarise: no, I do not believe Armin needs to change the name of his show. I'd even say that it'd be detrimental to the genre if he did.
We need ASOT to acknowledge this shift away from traditional trance music by changing its name accordingly - perhaps something like "A State of Turd". This may seem harsh but it reflects our disappointment with how far ASOT has strayed from its roots.
I would also like to advise you to remove this from the petition, as I personally think the goal in general is already unattainable in and of itself. Wishing to change the name to this or whatever other derogatory phrase you can think of makes the entire petition nothing more than your average internet meme (unless you're truly serious about this, then I'd call it an
above average internet meme).
[Edit: rephrased some sentences.]