Good Soldier Schweik, I'm with you on this. It takes time and precision to learn the art of Fingerpicking or Flatpicking, whereas thrashing two or three chords is quick and easy and appeals very much to the X Factor generation, which Mr Bridge seems to support. Like you I see too many young players, just strumming open tuned chords (which really are not chords at all), over using suspended voicing and generally making everything sound the same. I would say they need to spend more time learning the subtly of playing and set themselves above the average three chord thrasher.