I used to be one of those guys who thought Prog metal was superior to everything, but I don't know how to finish this sentence.
I've actually stopped looking for new prog metal bands because the genre is so stale now. I await my existing favorites to release new stuff, but otherwise I'm looking for other kinds of music. For a while now I've been searching for new female fronted bands, and have found albums I like by artists I don't like, Paramore for example. Another shocker is Taylor Swift's latest album. Her country stuff is complete bollocks, but her new pop album is great, and aside from a couple crappy moments (Bad Blood's shitty chorus and Shake It Off's shitty bridge) I enjoy 1989 more than Dream Theater's newest, and I think DT12 is great too and has NO crappy moments.
So I've definitely broken out of my Prog is God shell, but prog isn't the only genre with close minded fans. In fact, I think thrash and death metal have worse close minded fans than prog.