> It's not hard to be slop with slop

A tool in and of itself is not slop.

What someone makes can classify as slop if the person doesn't have skills and taste. If they're not diligent about their work and careful about what they share.

A real artist is capable of using any tool available to them.

> Living long enough to see DAWs elevate the common hobby musician into developing a skillset, only to give in to the AI hype cycles and kill the soul of creativity.

Are you angry about AI code completion? Is tab suggest/autocomplete ruining your love of programming?

Are all the "common hobbyists" going to make you exit your career?