Comment by sodapopcan

Ha, I could talk about this framing for days as I think about it a lot.

To add some points on he other side of this analogy:

There is not a lot of purely electronic music that has stood the test of time, at least not when it comes to popularity or, more relevant to the metaphor, profitability. There is usually at very least a human voice in the (literal) mix, but more often than not there are also traditional instruments mixed in.

Take this next point as you will as I am being a bit tongue-in-cheek: While making music-making more accessible to more people is totally great, if I could go a week without hearing a variation of the phrase "Check out my dark ambient drone project!" I would feel oddly accomplished.

Most importantly, though:

> But give it a week of practice and most of your skill comes back.. and in 1 month you're back to your peak skill.

This is only true if you had the skill to begin with. For many electronic musicians, by which I mean junior developers, this is not the case. Does it matter? As a 45-year-old traditional musician... er, I mean hand-coder... I think so, but also ¯\_(ツ)_/¯