I was reading your post, about to vocalize the counter-argument, but you're right, they're two entirely different things.

I'd like to add to my list of "what don't we have", music creation software. I mean, dumbed down controls: where every settings sounds *ok*, and some sound amazing. No amplitude spikes just cause you adjust a control to a non-integer multiple of the blah blah, and upon filing a bug report recieving "you should know better than to do that".

Live musicians can't deal with the chance the software will do something crazy.
More (LV2 instrument & effect) software with dumbed down controls :)
-Harry