GOOD live music is better....for the audience.
Not necessarily for the players.
Ever since I discovered BIAB years ago, I’ve encouraged other musicians to check it out and I’ll continue to do so.
Even though I’ve programmed a ton of songs into BIAB, playing along with the PC doesn’t even begin to approximate playing with live musicians and the sound and feeling you get when the musicians actually “feed” off each others playing.
I’ll gladly take a single mandolin player backing me up over a 5 piece all star computerized back up band.
But that’s just one mans opinion.