I was listening to the radio (which I never do) and Funk Flex was dropping bombs (if you know anything about NYC hip-hop radio, FF is a legendary DJ who popularized the bomb sound effect) and ranting about how there is no respect in the game anymore - that people steal each other's sounds and make a snippet and a dance and go viral and then we never hear from them about; the culture is lost and it's just 1-dimensional non-sense.
On the other hand, before the internet, there was so much gatekeeping that it had a similar effect too - pop music with little substance and losing the connection from the people who made it big in the first place.
What do you think is the right balance between centralization/gatekeeping and decentralization/no barriers to entry?