Musicians especially classical musicians are a different kind of snobby. As you climb higher on the skill ladder the amount of self absorbed pricks exponentially increases, it feels like they are always trying to 1 up you whenever they can to make themselves feel better. The only way to be taken seriously by those people is to simply be better

This seems spot on to me. It shows how some performers of popular music can be in an echo chamber. There are worlds beyond Rihanna, the Beatles, and Rascal Flats; there is more than I–V–vi–IV, 4/4, and verse-chorus; those other worlds have different barriers-to-entry than popular music.

In 2021, Coldplay released an album with a genuine prog rock song on it [1]; it was inspired by Dark Side of the Moon [2]. I have come across a few other bands who have pulled off something similar. I always enjoy it when this happens, because it shows that some musicians have wings bigger than the popular music world allows them to spread.

[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloratura_(song)>, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWUV5-frRU4>

[2] <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3PhWT10BW3Urh8ZXXpuU...>

I don't know about musicians, but I won't take you seriously because you're not a person. For me, the value of music (like all fine art) is that it is a form of human communication.