When I started recording music, there was no such thing as AutoTune. You learned to play by listening, and if you struggled, there wasn't much the engineer could do for you. Now, there's a plug-in for anything, recorded music is basically free, and, for a few hundred bucks, you can  buy gear that studios could only dream about 20 years ago.

But ears are still ears, and experience is still experience. A good song stilI beats a fast computer, and a tasteful production will always sound better than a forced one, no matter how it was recorded.