I do know the problem. I think it's important you keep being yourself on the one hand and on the other, try to find your sound. IMO, there's only one way to get there, make music, a lot of it! Try to let go your big examples. You can keep em in mind as inspiration but shouldn't serve as something you trying to copy. I usually let my mood take me wherever it takes me when I boot up my DAW. Lot's of tweaking and just trying. Sometimes I'm not fully content with a bass line or kick but it's more or less what I want. I leave it and concentrate on engineering a nice modular synth to go with it, go back to the bass and kick later to change it out, etc. Doing this stuff a lot for a long period of time, eventually you should see a red line in your productions. For instance, I love classical instruments and distorted bass+drums. I had a period that I started my tracks with a mellotron and a 60s type of effect over it. Also, most of my tracks need to get very weird at some point to keep my interest. Also, I don't care about masses loving my music. If a handful of ppl go apeshit to my music, so be it. I like industrial darkcore for instance, there's a good base for that genre here in holland and surroundings but earning a living in it is gonna be hard. Not a reason for me to change myself. I still keep making music for the fun of it. Other ppl liking it is a nice bonus.
If you aim to be a producers producer, producing other ppls ideas, if you want to earn your money doing it, there's other choices you need to make.
