Reply to What does a good remix mean to you? What should a good remix be?

Just something I want to gauge opinion on, and that is what a good remix really should be.

The reason I ask is because I believe that a remix of a track should be done by somebody who genuinely wants to improve on and is inspired by the original track - because they really believe they have a better mix, can add better elements, and generally make it 100x cooler, but still sticking within certain limits, such as keeping it recognisable as the same track.

However, it seems that a lot more remixes I'm seeing are simply "genre checklists" - a single gets released, along with of course the original mix, and a lot of rather exciting looking remixes, which actually just turn out to be genre work. There'll be a drum & bass version, a dubstep version, a dance/club version (if by some miracle it's not already a dance track) and so on, just for the sake of having a version of that track in those specific genres. In the worst case, these tracks may bear little or no resemblance to the original track, to the point where it's essentially a different track sampling the same lyrics.

Anyone else feel the same way about this?