One possible interpretation is that the scene is completely awesome as long as you're capable of coding and thus being one of the real participants, but that it

One possible interpretation is that the scene is completely awesome as long as you're capable of coding and thus being one of the real participants, but that it's less interesting for pure spectators. Thus, for music coders -- "nerds" -- it is the future, but for non-nerds, there are more appealing alternatives.