I still hold a grudge from when white/wheat IPAs were coming out left and right but never become a style. I would venture to guess by now (although not as readily released) they have topped black IPAs in terms of numbers.
I know that didn’t answer your response well. I’m not even sure where I am going with this now.
My take is that we should have all the styles available, as long as they are really a thing, not a single brew somewhere using that name (except those that are literally the same like Helles and Dortmunder)…we put many styles in a melting pot anyway with tags afterwards…even if some styles don’t have tons of different beers, at least it seems better to have, for example, an Imperial Black IPA listed as an Imperial Black IPA and not a Black IPA…
the brewers writing “Hell” on a beer don’t claim it is a Helles. Not even writing “Helles” on a beer makes such a claim. That’s not how the German language works.
Once you’re done properly categorizing beer styles and everyone agrees, could you please have a look at music categories as well? There’s some work to be done there as well.