Being a New Englander, there was way too much good hxc, crust, and grindcore around here for me to ever really get caught up in pop-punk, and hanging around with dudes who used to offer their basements up for various emo and screamo acts back in the day served as a gateway to those genres as well.
I'm totally fine with this traditional emo/screamo revival. I guess everyone got sick of glorified pop-punk acts ruining the good names of both genres.