Personally, I don't think it's laziness. I think some producers are depressed or burnt out as well. I wouldn't mind seeing this kind of trance once again. Compared to the steroids and electro/house slow and terrible vocal stuff churned out by the asot gang. This track from 2008 is much better melodic and memorable as well.
a nice little out of the box tune with some unconventional sounds but also pretty cool technically. well it takes some independent artistic vision and skills to go that route, obviously nowadays scene full of templates and presets does not enforce that, so it's not exactly fair to blame the modern producers as they just do what they see leads the others to success and appreciation, it's not like Armin or Markus or any other big DJ are looking for the fresh / different stuff, they say bring it on the rehash of the current chart toppers, even in a more underground side like JOOF, they're repeating themselves and call it a style, so you have to repeat the others to get there
I also miss this sound in trance music, now rarely do such tracks. I never get tired of such a sound, I have already collected more than 100 hours of such music and I still enjoy listening to it
