We are the music makers - producers?

Depends what music you make. For musicians who make music with instruments its more than awesome for recording/mixing/scoring and mastering at pro quality. No complaints.

Thank god Logic stopped needing the routing nonsense at version 8 or 9 (can't remember quite which). I hated that stuff too - that whole logical board thing where the mixing channels were different to the back end channels. Very illogical. X got rid of it - or at least hid it to the point where I've not seen it for many years. I do like Ableton and I'm sure if you're in the right mindstate it's brilliant - I only ever really got into it as a breaks / drums trigger, and I still use it like that to this day. You can definitely release quality music on Ableton (but I also think you could do the same with a phone and a guitar if you had to - it's the ideas and the excecution, not the tools) - it just depends if you like using it or not. Personally Logic works much better for me. I'm used to that linear, left to right, tape recorder display.