What are the biggest downsides of the music industry right now?

Questions from readers to Mr. Ellis Christopher, That's a very broad and relevant question. However, there wouldn't be enough space to get it all out. Not to mention there would be some that wouldn't like my response. So let me put it gently. I miss real arrangements, horn players, strings, layers of real guitars and the varity of ideas and players on a record. The structure in which product is released, distributed and focusing on the actual career and success of an artist or release. Fewer artist are signed today, not to mention budget's are way smaller. Executive producers, arrangers and artist management are almost unheard of today. I guess my response would be the creative process. What's going to really kill that creative process will be A.I. as much as I'm into advanced technologies, it will change the industry forever. And furthermore, the first successful commercial release of an A.I. music project will completely kill the creative aspect of the industry. I've said all of that to say, just as a list of project credits have disappeared (executive producers, writers, arrangers, session players to produced by one guy) so will today's producer/writer. It will read like Engineered/Programmed by and music by A.I., guaranteed. The technology is already being developed. Look for late 2023 early 2024 to see the first release, oh and released by a technology company, not a label. Regards, Darrell Ellis