[tossandthrow]

Likely historically true, but not anymore.

As a software developer I see that LLMs are better at the "craft" of making software.

Software developers training are overwhelmingly analytical.

Musicians will experience the same. That the quality of Ai generated music is superior. But it will come more as a chock for the reasons you explain.

[rxatic]

Musicians are already experiencing this. The likes of Suno are churning out high quality songs with only a minimal amount of prompting material.

One can roughly prototype a song, giving it the structure, melody, harmony, rhythm, lyrics that a finished song might have, upload it and request a cover in a particular style. The output will often resemble a highly competent human performance.