>people calling themselves producers
The music industry has just as big a headache with imposter syndrome, the Flynn factor, and the Peter principle, as any other industry.
The issue is that the music industry is extremely exploitative, while being undeniably competitive. You don't get coders going to the extremes that members do, for their art. (Not sure if that is a good or bad thing, personally.)
>producers and artists making content that isn’t of the highest quality, but at the end of the day they are creating. Setting an unreasonable bar of skill is not the way forward.
Its not skill. Its sell-ability. It doesn't matter if you threw lemons at a piezo and called it done, if someone is willing to pay to listen to it - because it interests them - then you've got a hit.
The ability to sell music is a very, very difficult thing to attain. Music is immediately free upon creation.
We, of course, have imposed a great deal of arbitrary limits on its production and reproduction and broadcast and distribution over the years - but the fact we still have musicians out there, mind-blowingly great ones in fact, who will never get discovered in their lifetimes is a clue: music is language.
It therefore cannot and should not, ever, be limited by government - or its adherents - in ways which prevent the use of this language.