No need to apologize, you're entitled to your opinions. Just as I make no apologies not only for being gay for everything Trent related, but gay for the whole genre, pretty much.
I have to agree with you, though -- I found With Teeth and Year Zero were his weakest efforts. I don't find myself listening to them near as much as the older stuff, and I can't even remember anything other than "Every Day is Exactly the Same" and "With-a Teeth-a", the latter of which sounds like he's mocking something, rather than trying to pull off something serious.
That said, I totally dig Nine-Inch-Nails type music with a female singer.
And I did kind of hear some Downward Spiral-type stuff. This.