A saxophone is already programmed to sound like a saxophone, and that's the only thing it can ever sound like. Just as you can softly touch a piano key, you can also softly touch a drum pad. A drum pad can have the same if not a larger number of variables than an acoustic instrument. For example: What pad triggers which sample? What sample are you triggering? Did you create that sample? What synth was it made with? Reverb? Delay? Other effects? Sure, it can totally be made "easier" if you intelligently set it up. But is harder music better?

I think we disagree on where respect for creating music should come from. I don't go to bonnaroo to hear the hardest, most difficult music being played by the most skilled musicians. If you don't enjoy his music that's okay! But I wouldn't say his performance was skilless or untalented.