Pretty much the reason I think electronic music was fantastic right up to the point DAWs became a thing. When everyone with a laptop and some software licenses can just put out slop that sounds like the originators, quality fell off the cliff. 90s and 2010s electronic music are a world apart.

Yeah, it seems to be a problem, especially when it comes to 'discoverability'. Just like the app store: I hate browsing app stores like Apple/Google Play and stopped doing it entirely because every query has 40+ different apps doing very similar things.

You're not wrong but there's entire jams on YouTube from people with real gear and no DAW that produce uninteresting synth based music.

Yet The Prodigy made good albums entirely with Reason.

I'm not sure what point you're making. I never claimed any set of tooling is necessary of sufficient to produce good music. I merely pointed out that, as it became more accessible to produce music, the overall quality of the output decreased.

I think the volume of good music has actually increased, but maybe less than the bad music.