This thread reminds me of 2 guys in a bar. The one at the left end is boasting about how he is building a house. The one at the far right is saying it too in a far less belittling tone.

When you listen more closely, the loud one at the far left is saying "Yeah my cement guy was in and poured the foundation. Then the framers got the walls up. The electrician finished yesterday. The plumbing guy comes tomorrow." The one on the right is describing how he poured the foundation, framed it all out, ran the electrical wiring and is doing the plumbing next.

"Hiring a contractor to build a house" and "Building a house" are not the same thing. They both end up with a house being there, but they are not the same thing. Just like going to the style picker, clicking "Load Demo" and letting the program write music that you have NO idea about is NOT the same as songwriting. I call that "microwave music". Pop the baggie into the nuker for 3 minutes and you get a bag of beef stroganoff. Did you COOK it? Did you make the pasta? The sour cream gravy? No, you just heated a bag.

I knew a girl some years back that went to Williams-Sonoma and walked out with cookware that cost a little over $4000. She can't cook AT ALL.

The cookware doesn't make you a good cook. YOU make you a good cook. You practice, you test, you make a lot of bad food until finally you get it right.

The gear doesn't make you a good player. YOU make you a good player.

The ignore list is now 14 names long!