Bob, you may be totally right.
IF we were talking about actually recorded stuff, which we are not. I'm talking about synth/sampler based dance music so there's no real acoustics involved (in terms of the recording), no way of enhancing something that's not there to begin with.
You are also talking about reverb on the drum mix, that's rarely used in that context on dance music.
Which means you need a different approach and sometimes you need to mess around a bit more or do different stuff.