American IPA and Pale Ale versus British...

Has the difference between American IPA and American Pale been blurred beyond distinction?

I've had hoppy pale ales with a bit of malt backbone, ive had ones that went easy on the hops, ive obviously had IPAs that were hop bombs, and I've had IPAs that are more imitations of the English IPA and are malty and balanced with the hops (which is only really like the modern English IPA and not the original version probably).

what was the question???

BYO had an article about this last year. Here is a link to the MP3 and PODCAST, not sure how well it follows the written article.