Well, t_i_n, as far as I can tell from the foregoing you're implicitly being accused of a lapse of taste! Which, of course, would be highly improbable.  I haven't heard Tevot, but I have a lot of admiration for a lot of what I've heard of TA's music, especially Asyla, Living Toys, the exquisite Sonata da Caccia, and, although I had big problems with the dramaturgy, an awful lot of the music from The Tempest. I think it's important here to keep discussion of the music separate from discussion of the hype - as far as that's possible and meaningful to do - because I don't really think the hype has directly affected the music. I agree with you that he can hardly be accused of laziness, and I think that so far he's handled the pressures of being a 'star' (however invidious me might think them) rather well. At its best, I think his music is thoroughly individual, complex (in the interesting sense) and 'questing'.

Sounds more like IGI's line of business