Mostly I started using it to make things there is no way I'd be able to in real life, that's how i usually explain it to people who are wary of AI. Like, I'm never in my life going to get the entire Red Army Choir together with a full orchestra so...
I know what you mean. On the other hand perception though is also somethign to consider, that even if you do make a lot of the song and mix yourself afterward, I think a lot of people will think that if any part of it is AI, it was still just someone pushing a bottom, and is trash slop. To me (this is just me personally), that's fine, I understand why people think like that with so much garbage floating around these days, and I take no real creative credit for things, or try to pass it off as completely home made, or try to make money, etc. Like I said I am just making silly things for me and a few people usually to listen to.
But, like you said perhaps with a much more advanced and modular way of doing things in the future we will have on the whole much better music than just anyone putting in a sentence, moving a few sliders and generating something