On one hand I completely agree, but on the other hand, from their perspective it may be "well I paid $500 for this turnkey point-and-click app and now it makes money for me in the background while I sit on my couch making music all day". This new streamlining makes it more soulless in general but less soulless for the individual people responsible for it because they're doing and seeing less of the actual bullshit themselves and deferring it all to the automation pipeline.
They may (and, frankly, should) still feel something about what they're putting out into the world, but they can more easily blind themselves to it and just tell themselves almost everyone's doing something dumb to make a living and they're not even the ones actually "doing it" themselves.
They may (and, frankly, should) still feel something about what they're putting out into the world, but they can more easily blind themselves to it and just tell themselves almost everyone's doing something dumb to make a living and they're not even the ones actually "doing it" themselves.