Moving from macOS to Linux for Music Production: The Journey Begins

exactly! creative flow is killed by all the fiddling you have to do to keep things working

There's probably more variety in music today than ever before in human history.

First off, Avicii used FL Studio. And music is diverse, I think you're either living in a bubble or somehow your exposure to music is very limited. Music production is also a lot cheaper and easier to pick up these days so you most likely also come across music made by beginners and/or people who just want to make music for other than artistic reasons.

Also a lot of music is loop/clip based (one or more bars of music is a sample by itself) which can be repetitive and exactly in time every time.

My favorite artists find ways to add a lot of variation, even to simple song structures. By including lots of detail, by playing parts by hand, blending electronic and acoustic instruments, etc.

I think music benefits from imperfections here and there.

i would say most use ableton nowadays. the reason why things sound the same is because people put 80% effort into recreating something that they love about another song