Why does Gnosticism get so much press today, when it was a relatively minor movement

Gnosticism was actually a minor cult, when compared with the other, competing religions at that time (during the first 4 centuries AD/CE).

For example, Clement of Alexandria, in his dissertation on non-Christian religions in Egypt, details the Eleusinian orgies, the Thracian orgies, the Phrygian orgies, the Samothracian orgies, the Corybantic orgies, and the cults of Mithras, Mater Magna, Sarapis, and Isis, as well as Manichaeism.

But Clement does not directly mention the Gnostics at all (though they was indirectly related to a few of those Clement does mention).

So why do they get so much press today?

The movement is gaining more and more followers.

People are just within the past 20 yrs, learning about so much that was omitted. They want to know about the other texts, and make the choice themselves if it pertains to the faith, or not.

There is a Gnostic church in my area. Nice people. I don't really agree with them, but hey - who am I to tell one of the oldest sects of Christianity that they are wrong?

Gnosticism has been making a comeback as of late.
It may have something to do with people leaving the traditional churches today in order to get away from a lot of the dogmas and doctrines.
As I'm sure you are aware, the early Ebionites were Jesus' actual followers that were later deemed heretics by the later Gentile ran Church of Thar Roman Empire.
So I think that some of the Christians leaving the church, don't want to leave the faith entirely and the Ebionite religion seems to meet what they're looking for in their current view.

I suspect it is because of the same "New Age" philosophy. The Gnostic Jesus taught nosies, "knowledge" as the means to salvation, glorified nature, and "spiritualist" things that canonical Gospels considered to be literal.

A non-comm ital, anything-goes Jesus is soothing to some people today, as is the concept of being "saved" by our own knowledge or our "god within."

Even many Coptic scholars today tend to focus on the Gnostic works rather than the canonical Gospels, which is unfortunate, since the world could really use an updated, scholarly translation of the Coptic New Testament. The older, early 20Th century version by Reverend George Horner mimics the diction of the King James Version.

Anyone who has studied the church fathers knows that the Gnostic sects were at one point a major threat to "orthodox" Christianity.