Maybe I’m projecting, but it seems obvious to me that the author’s root problem is that he isn’t producing any music.

Of course, I’m assuming he isn’t based on no mention of it in the article.

The natural result of observing and loving something is the desire to copy it. That’s what humans do.

Such a lopsided preference for consumption over production suggests to me that the author has some extreme repression, fear, etc. around making music, and that energy is being channeled into this weird need to consume and judge other people’s music.

I’d probably be this way if I didn’t make anything too.

Just my 2 cents.