HAHA - electro is made with breaks, that is one thing that separates it from house, or so the DJ's tell me.  
I have a CD from Mixmag; 'Tome Neville: Electro House' from 2006 and it is really quite good. 
So I think the genre initially was a good idea but then a lot of people that didn't know what they were doing jumped on the bandwagon.