I kind of relate it to modern music. Modern "academic" music is typically quite complicated and dissonant, and requires a great deal of skill on the part of th

I kind of relate it to modern music. Modern "academic" music is typically quite complicated and dissonant, and requires a great deal of skill on the part of the musicians to play: it sounds like crap. Modern "popular" music is simple, only a few months on the guitar will get a normal player where they can play most rock/pop. You can waste months writing "perfect" Haskell that nobody cares about, or write some really buggy Java and make Minecraft.