We are the music makers - producers?

I'd agree to a certain extent. I don't think the kick particularly cuts it in modern productions unless layered and treated with some tasty plugins. The ride is also extremely resonant in a really ear displeasing frequency straight out of the box

Thism much of what we've heard tends to be run through hardware compressors, saturates etc to sound as we know it.
If you have a wave folder, try it!