Personally, I've been listening to D&B and EDM in general since the late '90s and if there's one thing I can't stand is shit that still sounds like it's from then. That's nostalgia not creativity. Maybe a resource to draw on, never a goal. One of the biggest drivers of EDM enjoyment for me was always about how it pushed the envelope. The very fact of its evolution was always what kept me listening to it.

For whatever it's worth, I do think there's a value in approaching production from different angles though, so if I'm right about that, you might just find some momentum in just pushing forward not along traveled paths but along your own and evolving it in your own way. It can be the same canvas everyone paints on but it should be your art. And you don't have to use the colors everyone else does.