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There clearly weren't that much Touhoufags in 2005 and arguably 4chan, and certainly Touhou fans, weren't as hostile and butthurt in that period compared to later years when it started to grew rapidly.
There also weren't much things to compare with at the beginning. The longer Touhou goes the more standard is built up from older titles. It's only after a number of titles that people start separated the games with "era" and when ZUN's experimental mindset and difference between works became more appearent that people start making comparison. I remember this started during UFO-TD era, which coincided with the time of cooldown after the surge of Touhou boom during PoFV-MoF era. Newfags started wondering why there arent any memeworthy songs like IOSYS remix of Cirno or Suwako's theme then proceed to shitting anything past MoF, even though they do gradually become popular in the community.
As for why IOSYS don't make "worldwide hits" anymore, all of those came from flash PVs that everyone simply ceased to make altogether at one point, either because flash craze also died or animated PV is no longer worth the cost. Literally without them IOSYS is just another obscure circle that still latching on popular themes, while a lot of other circles do make arranges of newer musics. It's just none of these circles actually ever try to aim for mainstream recognition.

>Now fans are forced to make remixes of ZUN's old work just to get people to listen to it.
This is only true for new circles that's just trying to compete, because yeah U.N Owen or Yukari are cultural icons at this point so it is their best shot to be recognized, but again it's likely more because of their build-up popularity than anything.